The most effective people have excellent time management skills

Nowadays, especially in the US, people are overburdened with work. Typically, most people are buried underneath paperwork and email. But my boss recently made a good observation: He mentioned that top performers can answer you almost immediately. The most effective people would usually be on top of things and possess excellent time management skills.

We noticed that the very top directors, professors, managers and other top executives would reply to any emails within a few minutes to at most a few hours. While those with poor time management skills have to be literally harassed over a few days to months before responding. Unfortunately, I have often encountered the latter!

But I have also had the chance to interact with top performers, at the top of their field, who managed to respond to my emails and also who gave me their cell number in case I didn't succeed in reaching them fast enough!

These are the kind of people whom you should consider working for and whom you should hire.

Also, this is the kind of professional behavior one should strive to cultivate.