Tags: time management
This week I had the opportunity to participate in the first big case competition of the year on campus, which was sponsored by Proctor & Gamble (a consumer brand goods company based in Cincinnati, OH). The case was marketing based, using a real P&G brand, and interacting with members of the brand management team that actually works on the product's marketing strategy.
People, perhaps now more than ever, like instant gratification. We want answers and results right now. We don't want to have to wait until 6 in the evening to catch the evening news, which is why we have multiple 24 hour cable news networks. Most of us carry more computing power in our pockets than it took to get to the moon, so that we have everything, news, weather, banking info, contacts, and whatever else there is an app for, at our fingertips.
I guess I'm lucky that my 1st week at Fisher coincided with a long weekend for Labor Day holiday! However, I know this is not always going to be the case, which means, I need to work better at time management to ensure that I am staying ahead with this rigorous program.
So I am giving you some advice on how to manage your time and stay ahead of the game, while still enjoying somewhat of a personal life.
I'm an outlier. The average age of the 2012-13 class of SMF students is around 23 years; I'm 33. The average work experience of the group is about 1.5 years; I've been out in "the real world" for 10 years. So maybe it's just that I don't know any other way to approach this SMF thing than this: I plan to treat it like it's my job.
I saw an interesting quote on a technology blog that I follow called Slashdot:
To do two things at once is to do neither. -- Publilius Syrus
(As a nerdy aside, Slashdot always has some random quotation at the bottom of the page, mimicking a traditional program on Unix systems call "fortune" that does the same thing when you log in on the terminal.)