The Code Whisperer

I was chatting to a very good friend of mine on Saturday. He has a senior position reporting to the board of a large charity and has just reflected on his first year there. It turns out that he’s spent over 40% of his time on administration tasks. As this is a new position for the charity, some of this time was spent building a small team, but we both believe this is far too much time - he is a specialist in his field and should concentrate as much time as possible on this and as little time as possible on the tasks that someone else could do. From the charity’s prospective it’s madness. You pay someone a good salary, let’s say