Procrastination: Or The Fine Art Of 'Delay Management'?

Procrastination: Or The Fine Art Of 'Delay Management'?

Forbes.com -- Delay management is one of life’s most difficult skills. Pejoratively dubbed procrastination; in essence, it’s knowing just when to pull the trigger on any given decision, whether that means over periods of milliseconds or months.

Frank Partnoy, author of “Waiting: The Art and Science of Delay,” argues that the concept can be applied to everything from dating to counter-terrorism.

To learn more, Forbes.com spoke with Partnoy, a Yale Law graduate and former investment banker, who is now the Director of the University of San Diego’s Center for Corporate and Securities Law. (Full Story