This week, I ve been preparing for a presentation to a trade association on the use of technology for time management. Technology can help tremendously with time management. Also, with the click of a button, many people can be emailed an announcement of a meeting change.
Potential uses are enormous.
But, time and time again, in my personal coaching practice, I frequently see folks simply using technology to automate a poor time management system. They are in effect, paving the cow path, or putting lipstick on a pig. Putting lipstick on a pig makes the pig a little prettier, but underneath it, the pig is still a pig. Cosmetic changes don t result in underlying structural change. Technology can be used like lipstick, or to support a more fundamental realignment of a time management system.