Taking Control of Your Time (The Results Driven Manger Series)

By Harvard Business School Press

Helps managers develop the skills to make each moment matter and increase productivity. This work show readers how to manage communication overload, know where to focus the most attention and expedite writing. It also enables them to: make each meeting matter; lead for faster results; and avoid information overload.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591396352
• ISBN13: 9781591396352
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Harvard Business Press
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Shortest book on Time management

Read it if you are busy. You can finish it on a single flight. Very worthwhile.

Small investment, large payback...

With the new year fast approaching, I'm getting that urge to spend a bit more time examining my life and what I'm doing. As part of that review, I had a chance to read Taking Control Of Your Life by Harvard Business School Press. There's quite a few gems hidden in this relatively small volume. Contents: Be Sure You're Spending Your Time in the Right Places; Strategies for the Shorthanded; Timeless insights on How to Manage Your Time; Getting Organized; How to Make Every Meeting Better; Copying with Infoglut; Is Multitasking Overrated?; Fast-Cycle Decision Making; Speed Leading; Advice to Leaders in New Jobs; Don't Throw Good Money (or Time) After Bad; Which Projects Get Top Billing?; Making Sense of Your Time Bind, and Escaping It; Pump Up Your Volume!; Five Questions About Encouraging Managers to Delegate with Jeffrey Pfeffer Taking Control Of Your Time is a compilation of a number of articles that have appeared in the Harvard Management Update and the Harvard Management Communication Letter that all have to do with some element of time and life management. Since there are various authors, you'll get a wide range of views and techniques that you can use to start making better use of the finite amount of time and attention you have. It's likely that not all articles will apply directly to you (like Advice to Leaders in New Jobs didn't apply to me). But a few short pages away, you'll run into something that resonates loudly (like Is Multitasking Overrated?). My personal goal with a book like this is to come away with two or three good ideas on how to modify my actions to improve my productivity and efficiency. Without a doubt, this book met that standard. Regardless of whether you're planning a new start for the new year or you're just trying to cope, this book can be a small investment with major returns in your life.

Taking Control of your time and life and career!

This is one of the few self-improvement books I would recommend. I own a real estate business and find myself constantly interrupted and incapable of completing one days worth of "To do" lists. This book is teaching me how to really prioritize, take time off each day to think (yes, one of the most undervalued assets in the business world today to advance one's career, is to make the time to think) and strategize for better ways to live and work. It also challenges me on how to asess which meetings are advancers of career and which are void of any such prospects. You learn how to empower yourself in ways that avoid endless, meaningless meetings in favor of quick phone conferences, emails I recommend you read it: your career and life are about to improve substantially!

Excellent Book on Time Management and Becoming a good person

The book consists of small articles and each of them tells you about how can you improve yourself, your time management skill, reducing stress etc. It has lots of practical cases and if you read, you'll feel like you are the character discussed. If one book you want to buy about time management and want to become a good and efficient person, go and buy it. It's practical and full of tips and real life examples.