Control Your Time: Avoid Ambush Meetings and Calls

How much time do you lose to pop-ins and unscheduled phone calls? Get it back.

By Frank Stitely
The Relentless CPA

Ambush meetings and phone calls are unscheduled events. Clients just walk in with a tax document and want to say, “Hello.”

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This morphs into, “Quick question while I’m here. …” Fifteen productive minutes escape your life, which is really 30 minutes when you consider the mental time you need to switch back to the task that was interrupted.