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There is an excellent thread on Time Management over at Work.Life.Creativity about managing time (and managing up) in an office environment that is filled with distractions, including the boss!

Here is part of the the initial post:

I work with a team in a very small business (I’m one of six FTEs, and we’ve got two PTEs). Sadly, my boss is an entirely distraction-driven person, and many of the folks in the office (I’m not there most of the time - I telecommute) abuse this and make it worse, as far as I’m concerned. I don’t think that they mean to do it, but it’s the way that the business seems to have been set up (to a certain degree, I’m the nOOb to the staff).

As a result of the distraction-driven nature of the business, he constantly misses deadlines and puts projects on the backburner…and then complains about the fact that nothing seems to get done.

Go read the whole thing, and leave a comment, what would you suggest?

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