Category Archives: Time

Civilization, Life, Search for truth, Time, Truth

RIGHT ON TIME

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by Naresh Jotwani

A recent post on this blog, Time as a Resource, showed that time is a crucial resource in business management. Like any other valuable resource, time must be utilized in an optimal manner. As a short and sweet summary of that post, we repeat here the line from Peter Drucker with which that post started:

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

However, as we shall now show, there is much, much more to time than what we encounter in our busy worldly lives. When we logically explore various aspects of the lived human experience of time, we are led to conclusions which have a huge impact on the values by which we order and live our lives.

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Business, Engineering, Management, Money, Time

TIME AS A RESOURCE

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by R. Srinivasan

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
Peter F. Drucker

Peter Drucker is right, of course. Time has immense practical value. Time is money. But do we really understand what time is? We only sense its passing, based on the regular daily rounds of the sun, phases of the moon, devices known as clocks … et cetera. Some people relate time to karma, others relate time to entropy – while others still blame Einstein for all the confusion. After all, if everything in the universe is in ceaseless relative motion, whom can we trust?

When we harken back to our childhood, this inevitable question pops up in the mind: ‘O Father Time! What have you done to me?’ But perhaps that plaint should be addressed to Father Karma? Or to Father God? Is time just another name for God?

Indeed, we have no choice but to be humble. So let us turn to practical matters, related to our livelihoods. We do so by delving into Srini’s first-hand account of his many years of professional experience in the efficient management of time.

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