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Writing about time, teams and the week – with calculators.
Every post has a calculator for your own numbers and a look inside the app.
Time · 5 minThe real cost of re-planning your week by handEvery interruption costs a re-plan. Add them up with your own numbers, and see why the most expensive person in the company should not be the planner.Planning · 4 minA due date is not a do date: why deadlines slip in silenceDeadlines rarely slip on the day. They slip weeks earlier, when the work never got a time. How to see it coming.Meetings · 4 minWhat your Monday status meeting costs a yearA calculator for the meeting everybody attends and nobody owns – and what replaces it when the status lives next to the work.Money · 4 minUnbilled hours: the leak nobody reportsFor agencies, consultants and law firms the largest quiet cost is the hour that was worked and never billed. Count yours.Leadership · 5 minHire an assistant, or buy back the week?The first year of an assistant or a coordinator, written out next to a system and an operator – with the parts nobody puts in the spreadsheet.Teams · 4 minStop being the dispatcher: how work finds the right personIn most teams the founder hands out the work, one message at a time. Assignment rules do it on arrival, with capacity checked first.Leadership · 4 minAccountability without micromanagingAccountability is not a tone of voice. It is an owner, a date and a place where everybody can see both.Planning · 3 minHow many hours do you really have this week?Forty hours minus meetings minus the unexpected is a smaller number than most plans assume. Work out yours before you promise.Time · 4 minWhy cheap tools are the expensive optionSeven twelve-euro tools look cheap until you count the person who keeps them in sync. Count it.
The next Tuesday is already on its way. Let it find you ready.
Thirty minutes, and your first week is planned in the call. If it does not fit you, you will hear it from us first.