Managers always say that the most difficult among them is to manage your time. For this reason, Michael E. porter and Nitin nor’ya from the Harvard Business Review has launched a study. They watched the 27 CEOs for three months in order to understand what takes their time.
The leaders who participated in the study managed public companies with a total value of 13.1 billion dollars. Among them were two women and 25 men. Assistant every Manager has been trained in every 15 minutes to record the activities of your supervisor 24 hours a day. Each Director-General were about 60 thousand recorded hours.
It turned out that the leaders suffer from the fact that they are sent copies of e-mails. Ignore them they can’t, but we have to admit that most of these letters does not require their attention and participation. Handle them with other staff.
For each email takes an average of six seconds. Next, you need 25 minutes to return to their previous level of performance that could be observed before receipt of the letter. For this reason, it is believed that such a tool as email is greatly overused.
The study authors recommend that all leaders set strict standards for the use of electronic mail and written copies of addresses by the Director General. To filter messages would assistant head, protecting his head from the pernicious desire to everything.
The email interrupts other activity, extends the working day, breaks personal time and is not conducive to productivity. Many are beginning to understand it. For this reason, new York was even presented a bill that would require employees check email outside of hours.
It seems that email is perceived as a serious problem for modern business. Soon will follow the messengers.
The study showed that e-mail hurts the CEOs
Ernest Vasilevskiy