As your projects and responsibilities grow, your old way of scheduling can start to break down. You may decide to study Time Blocking and try it on your calendar. Yet when you apply it to your own situation, your work environment and personal constraints can differ from what you read,

When you run projects, you often have to manage not only your own tasks but also the overall timeline and the work of teammates. If you spend too much time on management inside limited hours, you lose time for the work that actually needs your judgment and creativity. Now imagine

Time Blocking is a simple but powerful scheduling method you can run right from your calendar. An individual can apply it quickly, but bringing it into a company can face one big challenge: team culture. If your company does not respect Time Blocking, someone may see it as a strange

Since reading The One Thing, I have believed in single tasking, the practice of finishing work by focusing on one thing at a time. After starting a company, however, my scope grew across PM, marketing, operations, HR, and business. I slowly fell into the trap of thinking that founders work

Managing your schedule productively means classifying work by priority and then executing accordingly. In the previous two PM productivity posts, Time Blocking for PMs and Day Theming for PMs, I talked about strong execution with Time Blocking. The real starting point, however, is setting the right priorities. You do not

Day Theming is a time management method where you group similar tasks into categories and then process one category in a single day without interference from other categories. A well known example is Elon Musk, who runs both SpaceX and Tesla. He allocates his weekly time by day between the

A Product Manager (PM) oversees the entire product lifecycle—from ideation to launch and long-term vision. Because PMs collaborate with many stakeholders (engineering, design, marketing, business, customer support, and more), schedule management is one of the most critical parts of the job. In a single day, PMs cycle through meetings