Every office has a time‑devouring creature that loves to feast on your calendar like it’s a buffet of minutes. In this episode we call it the Time Glutton and show how its appetite can turn focus into chaos, deadlines into myths, and stress into an unavoidable reality for leaders.

This episode is for managers, team leads, and anyone who feels their schedule is being eaten alive by endless meetings and urgent requests. It tackles pain points like setting firm boundaries, prioritizing ruthlessly, and building a culture where efficiency beats busyness.

In this episode, we cover:

• guarding time as a strategic resource
• prioritization techniques for busy leaders
• setting boundaries to protect focus hours
• distinguishing activity from achievement
• managing the tyranny of the urgent
• building time discipline in teams
• preventing productivity drops from overwork
• clarity in change management through calendar hygiene
• recognizing and addressing the Time Glutton species
• actionable leadership steps to reclaim calendars
• using agendas to limit meeting time
• creating accountability loops for task completion

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"Werq" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License,

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