At most companies, top management time is squandered and teams struggle to reach good decisions quickly
A company’s scarcest resource isn’t capital or even talent, it’s top management time. Yet despite its value, top management time is rarely managed systematically. As a consequence, crises of the moment often push aside deep discussions of strategy and investment. Important decisions either get put off or made too quickly without adequate consideration. A recent study reveals just how widespread the problem of wasted top management time is and describes seven techniques that successful companies are using to exploit top management time and make better decisions, faster.