You start the workday fired up with energy and great intentions. You plan to work on big projects—the important tasks you know you need to do to advance your career. You want to build the career capital that will help you at this job and your next few jobs. Then the first emails show up. And your phone rings, and you have to leave soon for the first of three back-to-back meetings. Your day is now go-go-go through a 10-hour firefight. By the time your last meeting has run 45 minutes late, you barely have the energy to walk to the subway, let alone plot world domination. When are you supposed work on your career when you can’t find time to think? Read more.