BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Administrivia
- the often tedious tasks associated with maintaining a Web site, mailing list, or any other form of Internet resource
Wiktionary Definition for: Administrivia
- uncountable administrative Administrative details that must be dealt with in order to do more interesting work.
- Ex: ''Once we finish the roll call and the other administrivia, we'll look at the open issues.''
Additional Resources
- Relegate the Administrivia
- Ok, so I just took that word from the comments section of a Huffington Post article by Linda Stone, but I like it. What the commenterâ€"and Stone herselfâ€"believes is that list makers like you and me often have trouble delineating the differences between big intentions and the crap that piles...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- 5 Ground Rules for Managing Professionals
- Managers in charge of a group of professionals face a problem which would be familiar to Alice, in "Alice Through the Looking Glass". Alice found she had become a pawn in a chess game. All the other pieces were animals which had a habit of getting up and moving around...
- Blog posts 2009-01-26
- Prevent value subtraction--be a cyber cynic
- Time is the battlefield of the century. Think of all the campaigns various entities wage on your time - sales calls, forecasting, competitive intelligence, factory visits, "administrivia," homework, soccer games, Mom/Dad's taxi service, backyard barbecues, camp-outs, your list here. Increasingly, everybody from the rep to the manufacturer...
- Research articles 2001-09-01
- You Need a Creative Sabbatical -- But How?
- Many executives are afforded sabbaticals to sharpen their thinking. But out here in the real world we're lucky to get 30 minutes for a baloney sandwich. How do you carve out time to rise above the administrivia? by Sean Silverthorne
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
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