It’s not the big (fish) that eat the small (fish), it’s the fast (fish) that eat the slow (fish).
Jason Jennings – Author
In real estate, it’s all about location … location … location. In VUCA life and work, it’s all about time … time … time. It’s about your smart choices (RBPS & RBDM) – how you decide to use limited time, resources, and money. It’s about innovating and surviving tech disruption through smart problem solving and decision making. You can’t be all things to all people. So, time or specifically the lack of it is increasing anxiety. Tech disruption changes our understanding of time. Things gotta get done faster. On budget. Within scope. With high quality. The below chart illustrates the tech diffusion model of the time to reach 50 million users.
Forbes Magazine called time or specifically the lack of it “the biggest issue of our age”. Time is fast, seamless, and almost instantaneous. Response times are squeezed to seize business opportunities or surpass competitors. Hyper global competition is the new normal. Competition done well results in high valued employment. Competition done poorly results in a race to the bottom. Time management is a business as well as a personal issue. Personal time management is fundamentally about life and work management.
Work Lesson Earned: It’s all about focusing on what matters, on the VUCANs impacting your life and the practices simplifying your life. It all comes down to making the right choices by controlling risk to get the right things done right. Remember, risk and control go together. You can’t have one with out the other.