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What to Do When There's Too Much to Do
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What to Do When There's Too Much to Do

Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes a Day

Laura Stack
Berrett-Koehler, 2012

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Productivity expert Laura Stack offers simple, innovative ways to help you enjoy a more productive and meaningful workday. She shows you how to prioritize your workload and create realistic daily, weekly and yearly work schedules by decluttering your files and inbox, identifying what’s really important, streamlining your workload and making more effective decisions. Some of her suggestions pertaining to health and exercise are extremely helpful, but can be found in other advice manuals. Nevertheless, most of her organizational ideas are novel and worth implementing. getAbstract recommends Stack’s realistic suggestions to everyone seeking to simplify a hectic schedule.

Take-Aways

  • To do less work – and higher-quality work – each day, follow the six-step “Productivity Workflow Formula”:
  • First, “determine what to do.” Clean up your to-do list. Track only goal-related items.
  • Separate tasks into what is due today and what you can do later.

About the Author

Laura Stack, head of The Productivity Pro, is a keynote speaker and author of Leave the Office Earlier, Find More Time, and three other books.

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    F. H. 1 year ago
    Good
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    N. R. 4 years ago
    Nice.
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    W. C. 6 years ago
    Interesting that Ms. Stack recommends we address email as it is received when most time management gurus teach you to tackle it at certain times of the day.