Define: "Defensive Calendaring" in Business
Minimal fiscal damage
"Block three hours for 'Cisco SDA Fabric Control Plane Debugging.' Nobody in middle management knows what that means, and they are entirely too terrified of breaking the network to ask you to move it."
The practice of strategically scheduling focus time to ensure dedicated blocks for critical tasks.
What does "Defensive Calendaring" actually mean?
"Lying to your coworkers about being busy so they stop stealing your time with pointless meetings."
"We encourage defensive calendaring to promote healthy work-life boundaries."
"I have back-to-back blocks of defensive calendaring today just so I can actually finish the Q3 report."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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