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100
Great
Time
Management
Ideas
from successful executives
and managers around the world
Patrick Forsyth
100
TIME MANAGEMENT
IDEAS
Patrick Forsyth
GREAT
Copyright © 2009 Patrick Forsyth
First published in 2009 by
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CONTENTS
Introduction
1
The ideas
1
See where time goes now 8
2
Plan, work—work, plan 10
3
Setting clear objectives 13
4
Speculate to accumulate 17
5
Using Pareto’s law 19
6
Tackling the tyranny of the urgent versus the important 22
7
Give clear instructions
24
8
Beware favorites
26
9
Use a “document parking” system
28
10
Aim at infl uencing particular result areas
30
11
Make use of checklists
32
12
Use abstracts
34
13
The best assistant
36
14
Communicate with your secretary
38
15
Be brief
40
16
A clear diary
42
17
What kind of system?
44
18
Good, better, best . . . acceptable
46
19
Trust the computer?
48
20
Cancellation as a time saver
50
21
Motivate your people
52
22
Thinking ahead
54
23
See the broad picture
56
24
Avoiding a common confusion
57
25
“Everybody’s gone surfi ng, surfi ng . . .”
59
26
And let’s send a copy to . . .
61
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27
Telephoneeffi ciency
63
28
A little help from some “special” friends
65
29
Give yourself some time rules
67
30
Don’twrite
68
31
Avoid purposeless meetings
70
32
Handling telephone interruptions
72
33
Keep papers safe and tidy
74
34
Do not put it in writing
76
35
A magic word
78
36
The productive breather
80
37
Writefaster
82
38
A cosmic danger
84
39
Morning, noon, or night
86
40
Technology to the rescue
88
41
Time to stay put
90
42
When being regular is a problem
92
43
Time to get noticed
94
44
The most time-saving object in your offi ce
95
45
What I meant to say . . .
97
46
Avoiding meeting mayhem
99
47
In the beginning—or not?
101
48
Theconfl ict/time equation
103
49
Too many head chefs
105
50
An idea that generates ideas
107
51
Rewardyourself
109
52
Best time for appointments
111
53
But I know where everything is
113
54
One thing at a time—together
115
55
At the bottom of the pile
117
56
Resolve to “blitz the bits”
119
57
“If I had wanted it tomorrow I would have asked
for it tomorrow”
121
58
Besecure
123
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