In speaking with principals from two agencies last week, the discussion turned to productivity and time management. Of course, as Mark Horstman has pointed out, there is no such thing as “time management.” Everyone gets 24 hours; you can’t “manage it.” What we really mean when we speak of time management is “priority management.” Nevertheless, we collectively came up with a total of five books on these topics:
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
- The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play by Neil Fiore
- Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives by Richard A. Swenson
- Ordering Your Private World by Gordon MacDonald
Additional Links
Time Management – Manager Tools episode about time management (Part 1 of two)
43folders.com – a popular GTD site
Life Hacker.com – Recommends the software and web sites that actually save time
Time Management on MindTools.com
10 tips for time management in a multitasking world
American Productivity and Quality Centre (APQC)
Popular pages tagged with productivity or time management on del.icio.us
Books tagged time management and productivity on Amazon.com
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