An excerpt from Bevins and De Smet’s article:

“Our research and experience suggest that leaders who are serious about addressing this challenge must stop thinking about time management as primarily an individual problem and start addressing it institutionally. Time management isn’t just a personal-productivity issue over which companies have no control; it has increasingly become an organizational issue whose root causes are deeply embedded in corporate structures and cultures.

Fortunately, this also means that the problem can be tackled systematically. Senior teams can create time budgets and formal processes for allocating their time. Leaders can pay more attention to time when they address organizational-design matters such as spans of control, roles, and decision rights.”

There’s also a great graphic that shows how satisfied executives spend their time, split by activity, situation, and communication channel.

The article includes five steps an organization can take.

“Making time management the organization’s priority.” By Frankki Bevins and Aaron De Smet. McKinsey Quarterly, January 2013. https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Organization/Strategic_Organization/Making_time_management_the_organizations_priority_3048

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