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Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > Time management
We are all faced with projects going off the rails, veering far
from what we initially set out to do, costing ten times as much and
taking far too long to complete - this is just part of everyday
working life. Honing our general skills in project management seems
like the obvious answer, but Fast Projects promises a quicker and
easier solution - cutting the time to get projects done in the
first place. Learning to operate within a short schedule not only
cuts costs and improves revenue and cash flow, but it also sets you
aside as a sharper and slicker operation. How to build, shorten and
execute a realistic plan in the shortest time possible is covered
in detail along with a specific focus on ensuring you have clearly
defined goals and are making accurate project predictions with a
successful tracking progress. Using worked examples and tried and
tested techniques, Fast Projects is your practical guide to
ensuring projects not only succeed, but are delivered early. If you
want to get the most out of your team and take control of your
workload, resources and time, this book is for you.
Find your focus with this transformative guide from an
organizational psychologist and Marie Kondo, the #1 New York Times
bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying and star
of the Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. Marie Kondo's
first book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying, sparked a new wave
of publishing and became an international bestseller. Now, for the
first time, you will be guided through the process of tidying up
your work life - digitally and physically. Whether you're working
at home, in the office, or a combination of the two, if you
properly simplify and organize your work life once, you'll never
have to do it again. In Joy at Work, KonMari method pioneer Marie
Kondo and organizational psychologist Scott Sonenshein will help
you to refocus your mind on what's important at work, and as their
examples show, the results can be truly life-changing. With advice
on how to improve the way you work, the book features advice on
problem areas including fundamentals like how to organize your
digital and physical desktop, finally get through your emails and
find balance by ditching distractions and focusing on what sparks
joy.
The Ultimate Habit Tracker for Living Your Personal Mission
StatementReaching your life goals as established in your personal
mission statement depends on the small steps you take every day.
With worksheets for goal setting and regular progress checks, this
habit tracker helps you get there, one day at a time. Achieving
your life goals just got easier. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective
People: Habit Tracker presents a brand-new way to track the daily
progress on your goals. Inside, find worksheets for planning, daily
habit tracking, and regular progress checks to keep you on track to
reach everything-from your big life goals to your smaller personal
goals. Learn the 7 Habits of effectiveness. The 7 Habits provide a
foundation for effectiveness in your life and relationships. Once
you apply these habits, your purpose and the person you want to be
become attainable. In this habit tracker, find an
easy-to-understand breakdown of the 7 Habits and guidance on how
you can implement them in your daily routine. Inside, you'll find:
A simple breakdown of the 7 Habits and a tracking system to
implement them in your daily life Worksheets for tracking goals and
habits you want to build Weekly and monthly reflection questions to
keep you inspired and on track Bonus free printable worksheets to
continue your habit tracking journey If you liked Workbook for
James Clear's Atomic Habits, This Year I Will, or Habits, you'll
love The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Habit Tracker.
'The case Phil makes for canned and frozen food is compelling.' -
Waitrose Weekend Nutritious and convenient, canned and frozen food
can be used for a wide range of value-for-money recipes. In The
Canny Cook, Phil Vickery shows you not only how to spend and waste
less, but also cook fast, fuss-free, good-for-you meals that are
bursting with flavour. From vegan and vegetarian dishes, to pasta,
meat and fish, desserts and healthy snacks, Phil's creative and
inspiring recipes are perfect for anyone looking to feed a family
using everyday supermarket ingredients.
A road-tested formula for improving your professional performance,
from one of the business world's most successful and productive
executives - with practical suggestions and takeaways in every
chapter. Discover the secrets to professional productivity and high
performance. Extreme Productivity is for anyone feeling overwhelmed
by their existing workload-facing myriad competing demands and
multiple time-sensitive projects. Offering antidotes to a calendar
full of boring meetings and a backlog of e-mails, Robert Pozen
explains how to determine your highest priorities and match them
with how you actually spend your time. Pozen demonstrates that in
order to be truly productive, professionals must make a critical
shift in their mind-set: from hours worked to results produced. In
a knowledge-based economy, what's important is what you've
accomplished, not how many hours you've logged at your desk. Pozen
teaches you how to efficiently complete your large projects and
quickly move through the small stuff. He shows you how to delegate
functions and manage your boss. He helps people at all stages of
their careers read, write, and make presentations more effectively.
He provides professionals with practical tips on how to efficiently
use their time-while leading full and productive personal lives as
well.
You may not realize you are at the mercy of Time Bandits - people
who steal your precious time, not with malice or intention, but
with crippling effect on your own pursuits. They steal 40-60% of
your time. And because your worst Time Bandits are probably your
family, colleagues, clients, bosses, and friends, we can't just say
no - we would risk offending them, or worse, losing clients or
getting fired.
Thus, "The Time Bandit Solution" is a step-by-step lesson on how to
recover stolen time you never knew you had. It is designed to teach
you the arts and skills for graciously negotiating with the Time
Bandits to prevent interruptions from sapping your productivity and
satisfaction. The Time Bandit Solution also explains how the damage
they cause lingers well beyond the interruption itself, how the
stress of interruptions subtracts joy from your most important
endeavors, and how to redeploy the time you recover.
Do you often think or say, 'I have too much to do, and not enough
time to do it'? If so, this book is for you. If you find yourself
frustrated by too many interruptions and feel powerless to prevent
them, you want to read this book.
With "The Time Bandit Solution," you will free yourself from the
distress of unwanted, unnecessary and unproductive interruptions,
and recapture the time to do what you must and what you dream of
doing.
Know yourself: understand your goals, boundaries and relationships
Grow yourself: nurture your worth, confidence and dreams
Show yourself: dare to be real and trust your instincts
Slow yourself: choose peace and joy over competition and drama
Do you find yourself constantly saying yes, even when you should be
saying no? Do you try your hardest to please everyone around you, yet
still feel like you're not getting it right?
To write a happier story, you need to take control and become the
editor of your most important work - YOU! In Get Real, Sarah Ivens
helps you to identify the things that are truly important in life and
equips you with the motivation, self-healing techniques and actionable
advice needed to improve your mental and physical well-being.
Sarah draws on illuminating research and personal experience: from
accepting that her difficult relationship with her father wasn't her
fault and coming to terms with the pain of miscarriage, to ending toxic
friendships and turning down a million-dollar job offer.
This book is a kind and gentle reminder that it's okay to be yourself -
because everyone else really is taken.
The Revolutionary Productivity System Trusted By Over 25,000+
Professionals.
Get more done and get your life back.
Many professionals work as much as 70 hours a week, leaving little time
for rest, exercise, family, and friends. Work is invading their
personal life.
The common understanding of productivity has failed these
professionals. Most think productivity is just about getting more done
at a faster speed. But it's not.
Productivity is about getting the right things done.
New York Times Bestselling author, Michael Hyatt, has created a total
productivity system that's much more than endless box checking. Proven
by over 25,000 professionals, this system helps overwhelmed leaders
achieve what matters most so they can succeed at both work and life.
In his latest book, Free to Focus, you'll discover how to ...
- Redefine your work so it works for you
- Filter your tasks and commitments
- Cut out the nonessentials
- Eliminate interruptions and distractions
- Set boundaries that protect your focus and drive results
- Leverage your time and energy for maximum productivity
- Build momentum for a lifetime of success
In Free to Focus, you'll learn the 3-step system to achieve more while
doing less.
A game-changing book about the revolutionary potential of working
from home, by two experts who work - and live - together. When the
COVID-19 pandemic closed offices around the world, sending millions
into makeshift home offices, it was a forced compromise made under
duress. But 2020 taught us that there may be another way to work:
one that doesn't involve hellish commutes and set schedules that no
longer make sense, especially for companies with international
reach. While working from home can make people happier and make
companies more productive, it has its pitfalls. Doing it well takes
some thought. Out of Office combines Charlie and Anne's
first-person experiences of moving to a rural area and working
remotely - for years before the pandemic hit - to demonstrate how
workers everywhere can find new ways of working anywhere.
The concept of time is a crucial filter through which we understand
any events or phenomena; nothing exists outside of time. It
conditions not only the question of 'when', but also influences the
'what, how and why' of our ideas about managment. And yet
management scholars have rarely considered this 'temporal lens' in
understanding how time affects employees at work, or the
organizations for which they work. This volume considers time in
context with the organization, exploring a temporal understanding
of leadership, HRM, entrepreneurship, teams and cross-cultural
issues.
Based upon his weekly Harvard Business Review columns (which is one
of the most popular columns on HBR.com, receiving hundreds of
thousands of unique page views a month), 18 MINUTES clearly shows
how busy people can cut through all the daily clutter and
distractions and find a way to focus on those key items which are
truly the top priorities in our lives.
Bregman works from the premise that the best way to combat constant
and distracting interruptions is to create productive distractions
of one's own. Based upon a series of short bite-sized chapters, his
approach allows us to safely navigate through the constant chatter
of emails, text messages, phone calls, and endless meetings that
prevent us from focusing our time on those things that are truly
important to us.
Mixing first-person insights along with unique case studies,
Bregman sprinkles his charming book with pathways which help guide
us -- pathways that can get us on the right trail in 18 minutes or
less.
A beautifully packaged collection of inspirational quotes with a
hilariously explicit twist from Sarah Knight's beloved No F*cks
Given Guides series In The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving A F*ck
Sarah liberated you from people and things that don't make you
happy; with Get Your Sh*t Together she provided a tough-love push
towards getting organized to achieve your goals; You Do You offered
a roadmap to embracing your individuality; Calm the F*ck Down
delivered practical solutions for managing ever-more stressful
times; and F*ck No! taught you to set boundaries and stick to them
with confidence and flair. No F*cks Given: Life-Changing Words to
Live By gathers the very best of this no-bullsh*t, life-changing
advice into one must-have gift book that enlightens and entertains
on every page.
Based upon his weekly Harvard Business Review columns (which is one
of the most popular columns on HBR.com, receiving hundreds of
thousands of unique page views a month), 18 MINUTES clearly shows
how busy people can cut through all the daily clutter and
distractions and find a way to focus on those key items which are
truly the top priorities in our lives.
Bregman works from the premise that the best way to combat constant
and distracting interruptions is to create productive distractions
of one's own. Based upon a series of short bite-sized chapters, his
approach allows us to safely navigate through the constant chatter
of emails, text messages, phone calls, and endless meetings that
prevent us from focusing our time on those things that are truly
important to us.
Mixing first-person insights along with unique case studies,
Bregman sprinkles his charming book with pathways which help guide
us -- pathways that can get us on the right trail in 18 minutes or
less.
Linked to the Early Career Framework, this book provides practical
time management and productivity strategies to help new teachers
tackle the issue of workload. Workload is a key issue for most
beginning teachers. Trying to cope with all the demands of a new
job with an increasing burden of administration, reporting and
assessment tasks, can be daunting at best and may even lead to
significant mental health issues. But there is a way through it
all! This book acknowledges the challenges that exist and suggests
evidence-informed ideas that can be used both in and outside the
classroom to create an acceptable workload. It takes a positive and
proactive stance, encouraging early career teachers to implement
strategies that will enable them to work more effectively and
ultimately bring a high level of enjoyment and job satisfaction.
Take your productivity to the next level and make the most of your
time! Do you have too much to do and not enough time to do it?
Don't we all! Productivity For Dummies shows you how to overcome
this common problem by tackling key issues that are preventing you
from remaining focused and making the most of your time. This
insightful text gets to the root of the problem, and shows you how
to identify and analyse the items on your to-do list to deliver on
deadlines and maximise your schedule. Numerous techniques and
technologies have been developed to address productivity needs, and
this resource shows you which will work for your situation.
Productivity is crucial to your success - whether you want to find
a new job, earn a promotion you've had your eye on, or generally
progress in your career, understanding how to improve your
productivity is essential in increasing the value you bring to your
organisation. At the very least, increased productivity means that
you get things done faster which translates into fewer overtime
hours and more time concentrating on the things that are most
important to you. * Eliminate procrastination and laziness from
your daily routine * Organise your work environment to create a
space conducive to productivity * Increase your concentration and
stay focused on the task at hand * Make decisions quickly, and stay
cool, calm, and collected no matter what the situation is
Productivity For Dummies helps you solve the age-old problem of
having too much to do and not enough time to do it.
"I'm getting more done in less time, but where are the rich
relationships, the inner peace, the balance, the confidence that
I'm doing what matters most and doing it well?"
Does this nagging question haunt you, even when you feel you are
being your most efficient? If so, "First Things First" can help you
understand why so often our first things aren't first. Rather than
offering you another clock, "First Things First" provides you with
a compass, because where you're headed is more important than how
fast you're going.
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