Time management determines your success at a senior level

Time management determines your success at a senior level
This doesn't mean obsessing about your calendar

The most productive PE/GE Partners make a conscious allocation of time relative to how they are expected to create enterprise value.

As your position evolves – deal captain VP/Principal --> deal sourcing MD/Partner --> fund raising Senior partner – where you spend your time needs to evolve as well.

What made you a great deal captain might get in your way of being a great producer. I very often see historically excellent professionals struggling to thrive in a new producing role. What made them successful in the past – accuracy, rigor, closed system – have little to do with the new Origination task.

As humans, we are wired to revert to the comfortable, and where we historically had success. However, succeeding in a more senior role requires you to delegate what feels comfortable, and embrace a role in which you have no track record, nor certainty of success.

Our minds can trick us into spending time on what used to matter, but is a big waste of time today.

Which activities are most likely to create enterprise value in your current/new role? How does your time allocation reflect these priorities?

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