1/ Personal time management for busy managers
Personal time management is about controlling the use of your most valuablle( and undervaluaed) resource.
Consider these two questions: What woul happen if you spent company money in the same way as you spend company time ? When was the last time you reviewed the way you use your time ?
Without personal time management there are last minute rush to meet deadlines,meetings which achieve nothing, days which seem somehow to go by unproductively, crises which come unexpectedtly from nowhere.This sort of invironment leads to stress and poor perfomance: it must be stopped.
Poor time management is often a sign of over - confidence: technique which used to work with small projects are simply reused with large ones.
Working inefficiently was perhaps unimportant in the small role, but it becomes unacceptable in the large one.
You can not drive a motorbike like a bicycle, nor can you manage a suppermarket chain like a market stall.
2/Hope for dying housing estates
What can be done with the rows of houses that lie empty in towns and cities across the north of England ?
They werw built for the working classes who walked to work in nearby factories, but they have become prisons for owners who have seen their homes' value fall as social problems have increased.
The traditional approach has been to demolish such areas and start again.
But an alternative approach among housing experts is to sell the properties for the next to nothing, in the hope that a new way of owners will improve the area, helped by public spending.
In one such scheme, 10 pairs of flats in North Benwell, Newcastle were put on the market for 50 pence each.
After demolishing hundreds of local houses, Newcastle city council hoped the sale would help to transform the environment for the remaining 1,300 homes.
Two years later, it looks as though the scheme may be working.
There were more than 100 potential buyer for the flats, even though they had to promise to spend $12.000 on converting each pair of flats into five - bedroom family homes.
The city council committed itself to spending a further $25.000 on improving each pair of flats.
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