Time Management

This is from a conversation at Stupid Motivational Tricks blog.

At our university, we get to decide which percentage of our time we want to dedicate to research and service every year. 50% automatically goes to teaching and the rest of time has to be broken down by each faculty member. And then we get merit raises based on how well we fulfilled our own plan.

I think this is a great system because people can decide for themselves whether they want to do more service or more research each year and manage their time to serve their own needs at the moment.

Of course, the first thing I did in my very first year at this university was ask, “So what is the minimum amount of time I can assign to service?”

“To research, you mean,” the Chair corrected.

And then she got to know me better and understood.