Time Management: Increase Your Personal Productivity And Effectiveness (Harvard Business Essentials) Paperback – Illustrated, June 1, 2005

If you're looking to increase the level of productivity with your time then this is the book for you! FANTASTIC!

For poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, time was, "a maniac, scattering dust." Satirist Jonathan Swift described it as, "all-devouring, all-destroying." William Shakespeare called it, "the wreckful siege of battering days." English dramatist Robert Greene may have captured time's essence most aptly in this simple elegy: "Time is...time was...time is past." Throughout history and up to the present moment (which as you are reading just slipped irretrievably into the past), everyone - from great kings to the average Jane or Joe - wants more time...but no one ever gets it. This is why time management is such a, well, timely topic, and one that most people want to learn more about and handle better. Therefore, we recommend this high-quality time management guide and finds it worth careful study. Time-management experts at the Harvard Business School prepared this first-rate title, which thoroughly explains how to set up an effective time-management program. So, read it. Don't wait until the buzzer sounds.

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Pros: clearly written & easy to read, with good bibliography and useful technical advice on meetings in the appendix.Cons: Largely workplace-focused, relatively standard advice, but is more a series of tips -- it lacks an overall philosophy or system compared with widely known books like David Allen's Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity or JD Meier's Getting Results the Agile Way: A Personal Results System for Work and Life.Conclusion: A decent introduction to time management if you want to get the usual doctrine and are focused on applying it at work, but if you are interested in a more holistic or comprehensive system there are better titles.

While I consider myself good at time management, I like to read a couple time management techniques when my life has changed in a way that no longer suits my current "system." This system doesn't come from a book although it is inspired by techniques from many places. Reading this book helped in my goal. I actually think I've read this book before many years ago. It still provided ideas, which is fine. That's the nice thing about time management. Techniques change over time to match how you work with time.It's actually hard to review this book because it contains everything one would expect in a business book about time management - logging your time, scheduling it, prioritizing, delegating, dealing with time wasters.I particularly liked the sections about time robbers and travel because I read the book on a plane!

Good book on time management.