April 27, 2026 | Categories: B2B
You have more time than you think. You have 8,760 hours this year and, chances are, you’re not spending them the way you believe. Most leaders assume they’re maxed out — it can certainly feel that way at the end of the week — but the culprit is rarely the calendar. It’s the story they tell themselves about it. This is one of the topics time management expert, Laura Vanderkam, covers in her new book, Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance (W.W. Norton & Company, May 5, 2026). Vanderkam has spent years studying how high achievers (and mere mortals like myself) spend their hours to help them identify what’s actually standing in the way.
One of the top challengers you’re probably facing this week? Many leaders find they spend a lot of their days in meetings, and any non-meeting time responding to emails, Vanderkam told me.
“The day’s focus can quickly wind up on whether you got to each meeting and answered everything in your inbox, not on what got done,” she said. “It’s helpful to remember that meetings and emails are tools to do your job. They are not the job itself. It helps to ask yourself each week, ‘What is most important to accomplish?’ and whether the work is supporting that.”
Once you’ve canceled an unnecessary meeting so you have time to read this, check out four things Vanderkam recommended you do reclaim time for the work, leisure, and pursuits that matter most.
Read the full article on “time management mistakes even effective leaders make” on Inc.com.
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