Time Sinks

I've now been a mini-manager for about a month. One of the things I've been surprised to learn is that, even though there's only one other person in my group, I still have to do a lot of organization, scheduling, prioritization, following up on issues with other people, and so on.

I knew that these things were a big part of management, but I didn't realize how big a percentage of my time they would consume even with such a small group. I'm starting to suspect that these things are kind of like hard drive prices -- you pay $60 for the first 20G, and then each additional 20G is only $20. Either that or I'm just not very good at it yet ;)

So far, I enjoy all these organizational activities. It'll be interesting to see whether I still enjoy them once the newness starts getting old.