The Time Trap: New Version of the 20-Year Classic on Time Management - Couverture souple

Mackenzie, R.Alec

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814477607 ISBN 13 : 9780814477601

Editeur : Amacom, 1991

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Suffering from information overload? Being asked to do too much? Can’t say no? If you’re finding your days clogged with endless activities and responsibilities and your work life spinning out of control, it’s time to employ some practical, realistic solutions to the age-old problem of “too much to do and too little time.”

This new fourth edition of the classic book on time management gives you more powerful methods for both maximizing efficiency and getting the most satisfaction out of your workday. In The Time Trap you’ll find out how to:

• Avoid so-called “time savers” that don’t really work.

• Set realistic goals and make commitments you can keep.

• Juggle multiple demands.

• Accurately estimate time needed on new tasks.

• Pinpoint and combat the most tenacious time-wasters.

• Protect your priorities.

Based on decades of research and interviews with businesspeople around the world—and extensively revised to include technology-based solutions to the challenges we all face in the virtual world—The Time Trap is loaded with smart tactics and priceless time management tools. Let this proven guide boost your personal productivity and professional success when time is not on your side.

Praise for Previous Editions of The Time Trap

“Alec Mackenzie provides an invaluable tool to anyone who wants to become more efficient. Here is a concise guide to the causes of poor time management, with both clear and crea­tive methods for eliminating them.”

— Eleanor Brantley Schwartz, Chancellor, University of Missouri–Kansas City

“This edition is Dr. Alec Mackenzie’s best Time Trap book yet. He really understands the time traps that befall us all, and he provides answers that will make our lives more fruitful with less stress. I am delighted to be counted as a ‘disciple’ of his wisdom.”

— Jim Van Houten, General Manager, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.

Alec Mackenzie was an internationally known speaker, consultant, and expert on time management.

Pat Nickerson, President of EBI Inc., San Diego, is the author of Managing Multiple Bosses. Her seminars on time and priority management have attracted 180,000 managers and professionals—business, government, and military—worldwide.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The all-time classic book on time management, The Time Trap, has shown countless readers how to squeeze the optimal efficiency and satisfaction out of their work day. Based on decades of research with businesspeople around the world, and now completely updated.

Filled with smart tactics, revealing interviews, and handy time management tools, the book has been extensively revised to cover time management challenges caused by new technologies and the Internet, and to provide technology-based solutions. For those who feel swamped by work and information overload, this is the proven, up-to-the-minute guide they need for getting things done when there never seems to be enough time.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Amacom
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814477607
• ISBN 13: 9780814477601
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible