Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.
I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.
Trying to work out my schedule is hard but I'm lucky I have two great teams who take care of it all.
I adjust my priorities according to the most important project I'm involved in at the time.
I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another.
It's an easy answer, as a manager, to say: 'I need time.'
I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It's like a Tetris game.
If there was a public function without Koch, it meant only that he was at the other public function, going on simultaneously.
Commenting on the New York Mayor's penchant for seeking publicity:
It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.