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Managing Time (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
Managing Time (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
Managing Time (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
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Managing Time (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)

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Does it seem like you never have enough time to get everything done? Keeping on top of your tasks, deadlines, and work schedule can be daunting. Managing Time quickly walks you through the basics. You’ll learn to:

  • Assess how you spend your time now
  • Prioritize your tasks
  • Plan the right time to work on each one
  • Avoid procrastination and interruptions

Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Whether you need a crash course or a brief refresher, each book in the series is a concise, practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic. Advice you can quickly read and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives--from the most trusted source in business. Also available as an ebook.

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Release dateMay 6, 2014
ISBN9781625272294
Managing Time (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
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Readers find this title to be a valuable resource for time management. The book provides useful techniques, insights, and tips for better managing time. Readers appreciate the bird's eye view of time management and the time box template. They feel informed, empowered, and recommend the book for its insights into prioritizing tasks and avoiding distractions."

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    Quick read and great insight and tips to better manage your time.
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    Excellent book to relook at work schedule and plan better. Prepare, Plan, Prioritize and pivot when needed to grown as effective time manager
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    I am informed and empowered after reading this book. It offers great insights into prioritizing tasks, assessing how I spend time and keeping away distractions. I recommend it!
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    Loved it, precise and most useful. It saved my time
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    The book provides a bird's eye view of time mgmt. Also, it contains very useful techniques to work in a more efficient manner. I enjoyed the time box template!

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Managing Time (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series) - Harvard Business Review

Managing Time

Get up to speed fast on essential business skills. Whether you’re looking for a crash course or a brief refresher, you’ll find just what you need in HBR’s 20-Minute Manager series—foundational reading for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives. Each book is a concise, practical primer, so you’ll have time to brush up on a variety of key management topics.

Advice you can quickly read and apply, from the most trusted source in business.

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Managing Time

Focus on what matters

Avoid distractions

Get things done

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Managing time.

      pages cm. — (The 20-minute manager series)

   Includes index.

   ISBN 978-1-62527-224-9 (alk. paper)

   1. Time management.

   HD69.T54.M363 2014

   650.1′1—dc23

                                     2013050976

eISBN: 978-1-62527-229-4

Preview

You have too much to do and too little time. It’s frustrating and stressful and has a big impact on your success. Although you can’t magically add more hours to the day, you can learn to manage your time—however limited it may be—more carefully and efficiently. This book will quickly teach you the basic steps and tools you can use to take control:

• Logging your time

• Prioritizing your responsibilities

• Developing a plan to reallocate your time to reflect your goals

• Managing deadlines

• Creating detailed, task-oriented to-do lists

• Avoiding interruptions and distractions

Contents

Why Manage Your Time?

Assess Yourself

State your objectives

Break down your responsibilities

Track your time

Examine your results

Develop a Plan

Reclaim your time

Create a big-picture vision

Do a reality check

Execute Your Plan: Time Boxing

Time-boxing basics

Setting up your time

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