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201 Ways to Manage Your Time Better
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201 Ways to Manage Your Time Better

A Quick-Tip Survival Guide

Alan Axelrod and Jim Holtje
McGraw-Hill, 1997

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Editorial Rating

5

Qualities

  • Applicable
  • Well Structured
  • Engaging

Recommendation

This cheerful and snappy little book offers a host of helpful suggestions for using your time and talents. You will appreciate Alan Axelrod and Jim Holtje’s humor, practicality, and common sense. Their advice - which applies to people at all organizational levels - ranges from planning timely and productive meetings to using the telephone wisely. They also discuss voice-mail etiquette, the best way to start your day, travel tips, and how to improve your reading speed and skills. You will benefit from the suggestions for managing your personal time, too. Supervisors can use this book to help their employees manage time more skillfully. The book is short and to the point, and happily devoid of verbosity. getAbstract recommends it as a text that will help you save time, calm frustrations, increase efficiency, multiply successes, impress others, and please yourself.

Take-Aways

  • The first step in using your time more efficiently is to recognize, record, and analyze how you use it now.
  • Learn to plan ahead. Write down a schedule of what you need to accomplish each day, and establish a time frame for completing each task and appointment.
  • Start each day with a healthy breakfast, pleasant conversation, and exercise. When you are physically fit, you will be more emotionally and mentally fit.

About the Authors

Alan Axelrod is the producer of numerous business and communications books. Jim Holtje is the director of International Client Services, a corporate communications and public relations management-consulting firm in Washington, D.C.

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