If there is any one “secret” of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time. The need to concentrate is grounded both in the nature of the executive job and in the nature of man. Several reasons for this should already be apparent: There are always more important contributions to be made than there is time available to make them. Any analysis of executive contributions comes up with an embarrassing richness of important tasks; any analysis of executives’ time discloses an embarrassing scarcity of time available for the work
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And therefore always time scarcity. It's baked in the cake. How do we effectively deal with it? Use it to our advantage?
