“Some people believe that the best approach to effective time management is to make detailed daily and long-term plans and then to adhere to them. However, this highly structured approach to work is counterproductive. Time management needs to be flexible so that employees can respond to unexpected problems as they arise.”
The speaker argues that time management by means of detailed and highly structured plan beforehand on the contrary just counters to productivity for the lack of flexibility. I am prone to consent to the speaker’s viewpoint however universal the advice is that making better plan could be instrumental to move forward.
For the one thing, nowadays you might find it unlikely to hammer out a schedule or plan that will be able to utterly keep up with the swift changes of the world. It is no hard to imagine the most common picture in real world that we more often than not confront with various changing, such as business environment changing, mercurial customers or policy changing so forth. In another word, the only unchanging thing is changing itself. As a result, the function of a schedule or plan has eclipsed much a lot in light of today’s changing world compared with before. Hence, a plan always winds up a sort of extra burden for people to revamp it for consistency with the real thing because it is not that the plan is guiding us to go forward, instead it is we people that make the plan suitable with what it is supposed to be. Isn’t it a little ridiculous?
Moreover, a schedule would be likely to make people easily confined to itself subconsciously without flexibility. Inertia of thinking matters a lot. Once a schedule is beside you, no less people will have the tendency to firmly adhere to it without considering whether operating according to the plan is really efficient and reasonable or not and they are just pushed by the inertia to go along with the schedule. However, this kind of rigidity is nothing but does harm the productivity of business. By the same token, people with this rigidity, when unexpected problems arise, are much more than lost in how to handle these issues. Japanese always like to setup so-called perfect plans in advance before they embark on doing anything, but Japanese rigidity is also well-known in the business world.
To sum up, in my assessment making detailed plans has already been out of date as the approach to effective time management despite the fact that sometimes it still could be applied somewhere. Besides, various brand new time management methodologies have been developed to replace orthodox ones, such as Urgent/Important theory etc. Anyways, it is the trend that conforms the changing of our world that every one of us cannot defy.
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发表于 2008-1-3 00:29:00
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