Creative people are notorious time wasters. Often that's the cause of domestic disagreement. Picasso's wife had to coax him out of bed every morning. Mario Puzo wrote "The Godfather," one of the most important books in American literature (my opinion) but he'd spend hours lying on his back staring at the ceiling. When his wife suggested he get busy -- they were broke at the time --he declared, "I'm working!"
But the corporate world is less flexible for dreamers, and less forgiving. Geniuses may need to waste a certain amount of time, or seem to, but an executive has to be accountable in a different way. In fact, I've always felt that time management is one of the most underrated elements of business success.
Along those lines, the late NFL football coach George Allen once performed an interesting experiment. He telephoned the offices of every team in the league at exactly one minute after nine in the morning. Without exception, the teams with winning records picked up while the others must have had something else to do. Or maybe they were just wasting time.
Here's a useful article on how to identify and deal with time wasting distractions in the workplace. It will only take about five minutes to read. Go for it!
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