Stop saying “time is money”

Ted Bauer
3 min readJul 19, 2022

If you had to make a list of the 900 most common things that poor-to-average managers say daily, you wouldn’t get very far without hitting “time is money.” Bad managers love to say “time is money,” thinking of it as some kind of catch-all motivational approach for our times.

What if the phrase “time is money” actually has much the opposite effect, though?

“Time is money” research

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Ted Bauer

Mostly write about work, leadership, friendship, masculinity, male infertility, and some other stuff along the way. It's a pleasure to be here.