Time Management

In this summary you will learn

• Why time was not as important in the past and why it is crucial today
• How to use the primary components of a time management program in your work and your personal life
• How your company can help foster employee contentment, an essential factor in worker productivity

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Why you should read Time Management

For poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, time was, “a maniac, scattering dust.” Satirist Jonathan Swift described it as, “all-devouring, all-destroying.” William Shakespeare called it, “the wreckful siege of battering days.” English dramatist Robert Greene may have captured time’s essence most aptly in this simple elegy: “Time is...time was...time is past.” Throughout history and up to the present moment (which as you are reading just slipped irretrievably into the past), everyone – from great kings to the average Jane or Joe – wants more time...but no one ever gets it. This is why time management is such a, well, timely topic, and one that most people want to learn more about and handle better. Therefore, getAbstract recommends this high-quality time management guide and finds it worth careful study. Time-management experts at the Harvard Business School prepared this first-rate title, which thoroughly explains how to set up an effective time-management program. So, read it. Don’t wait until the buzzer sounds.

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The Harvard Business Essentials series, which began in 2002, provides advice, coaching, information and guidance on business topics. Drawing on content from Harvard Business School Publishing and other sources, these guides provide a practical resource for readers in a variety of fields. To assure quality, a specialized content adviser closely reviews each volume.