Time Management

Gain Extra Hours Here is yet another great technique that virtually all execu- tives on the fast track use. It is so simple that ...

15 Control Interruptions FIFTEEN UNEXPECTED ANDunscheduled interruptions are among the biggest time wasters in business and indu ...

with their coworkers some more, not getting back into the job until 1:30 or 2:00 p.m. Work All the Time You Work The rule for yo ...

Whenever you say those magic words, “I have to get back to work,” the other person will pack up and leave. Stand Up Immediately ...

16 Batch Your Tasks SIXTEEN BATCHING YOURtasks simply means doing similar things at the same time. There’s a “learning curve” in ...

Use E-Mail as a Servant How you deal with your e-mail is going to have a major impact on your career. There are some people who ...

A busy journalist told the story of going to Europe for two weeks. His e-mail was inaccessible for the entire time. When he retu ...

17 Manage the Telephone SEVENTEEN THE TELEPHONE CANbe an excellent servant or a terrible master—especially if you feel compelled ...

the other end of the phone. The only way to resist this temp- tation to be distracted is for you to turn off the phone com- plet ...

Be Polite and Professional When you call another person, always ask, “Is this a good time to talk?” Top executives use this poli ...

The more precise and prepared you can be about the time and content of your telephone conversation, the more you will get done, ...

18 Conduct Effective Meetings Meetings EIGHTEEN FULLY 25 PERCENTto 50 percent of management time is spent in meetings of all kin ...

managerial and staff time and wages. Take the combined hourly pay of the people in those meetings and realize that you need to g ...

Start and stop your meetings on time. If you have people who are chronically late, you might consider locking the door shortly a ...

It’s simple to convene such a meeting. You say, “In the interest of time—because I know how busy everyone is— let’s hold a stand ...

Read Faster, Remember More NINETEEN THE AVERAGEbusinessperson today is reading thousands of words of e-mails, reports, news stor ...

Learn to Speed-Read You cannot avoid all of the incoming information, but you can sort it and go through it at a time and place ...

graph. Very often, you do not need to read all the details in the story to understand exactly what has happened. Read Selectivel ...

completely so that you can free up more time to do things of greater importance. Develop a System Over the years, I have develop ...

Invest in Personal Development TWENTY THE MOST IMPORTANTthing you do to increase your value, improve your results, and make your ...