Time. A precious commodity that is lacking in most of our lives. As I was reading Business 2.0's 10 principles of the New Economy, "Time" came in at number three. This was written a year ago, but it still rings true. My concerns with time, however, are not necessarily needing more of it, but rather understanding its limitations. Who couldn't need another lifetime to live? It seems just yesterday that FedEx was revolutionizing the concept of time. Email and the web have made visual communication become even more instantaneous. No longer are we struggling to get documents out at 5:30 when we have a whole 12 hours before the next business day.

Even with "efficiency" in our time it remains the largest conflict of our work environments. Why? People seem to have a distorted reality of what is feasible with time. Time limitations are disappearing on all kinds of tasks, one of which seems to be thinking. Who has time to think when you can crank something out immediately?

Where am I going with this? I dunno...perhaps I need more time.