The Obituary of Lord Chalfont (DT 15th January 2020) quotes his thoughts on Field Marshal Montgomery: “brutally inconsiderate, unimaginative and monumentally vain”. Reading that brought to mind some earlier comments I made on Leadership many years ago. Now I wonder if those thoughts have any validity today – of course it may well be that even at the time of writing they were worthless. In retrospect I do regret not devoting some thoughts on the issue of time management since I now believe it is an underrated quality of leadership: