The Practical Leader

MARCH 29, 2023

.” Participants in a study on “ making time for work that matters ,” knowledge workers cut desk work by six hours per week and meeting time by two hours per week by identifying low-value tasks, deciding whether to drop, delegate, or redesign, off-loading tasks, allocating freed-up time, and committing to a development plan.

Kaplan 52

Kaplan Porter Absenteeism Participative 52

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

This gives you enough money to fund you pet projects or cut costs without any effort when you are forced to do so. Try to join as many steering committees as possible, but avoid taking on responsibility as a sponsor or project manager. Learn to identify other tourists and bond as hard as you can. Inflate budgets.

Strategy 58

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Some companies have allowed employees up to 20% of their time to work on their own projects, but I know of no company that helps leaders free up their time to work on the frontier of their jobs. Sign up for a project outside your main area. One of my students signed up for a project to re-think best leadership practices at his company.

Porter 11

Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care. One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8