At Microsoft, he carefully budgeted his time, allocating a set number of annual face-time hours to each senior executive and five speeches per year to software developers.
The experience has delivered some valuable lessons; learning to plan ahead and ensure there is enough product to sell, to budget his time, and the art of delegation; Jamisen pays his younger sister $1 to watch his booth when he needs to take a break.
He knows how to better budget his time on the job in general.
He said he has been able to attend all regularly scheduled council meetings so far, but his out-of-town trips require him to budget his time carefully.
Give him plenty of opportunities to hang out with you, it may be hard for him to budget his time between his best friend and his girlfriend.
Branstad's tenure was marked by enormous tax increases -- particularly two sales tax hikes and one gas tax increase -- and the former governor doubled the state budget in his time in office.
The contours of the next fight started coming into view, with Mr. Romney portraying Mr. Santorum as an agent of Washington who should be held responsible for the budget deficit from his time in Congress.
When pressed on this discrepancy, Mr. Gingrich sometimes argues that he deserves credit for policies enacted in the 1990s that promoted economic prosperity and established a climate for balancing budgets that carried beyond his time in office.
You can see how Mr Swinney's budgets have changed over his time in charge of Holyrood's finances from the Scottish Parliament's research centre: It's clear that health remains dominant, and that it's been protected, while it is local government that has taken the biggest squeeze.
The former Radio 4 controller said he had cut individual programme budgets – or "salami sliced" – during his time in charge of the station, and axed programmes altogether, such as his controversial decision to drop the Friday Play.
The state budget more than doubled during his time in office, though he balanced it every year.
