Two managers working in an organisation have similar jobs, education and experience. They arrive at work at the same time; one manages his time well and leaves on time, while the other is the last one to go home with a briefcase full of work to finish. The reason for this manager’s predicament is not lack of time management but because he chooses to indulge in ‘monkey management’. The term ‘monkey management’ is inspired by one of the all time greatest articles published by the Harvard Business Review in 1947 called ‘Managing Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?’ by William Oncken Jr. And Donald L. Wass. This article was quoted years later by Stephen R. Covey in his bestselling books Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (1989) and First Things First (1994), and republished in the early 1990s in the Harvard Business Review because of its proven effectiveness.<\/p>