Laura Stack

What To Do When There's Too Much To Do (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Are you tired of productivity consultants-or worse, your boss-pushing you to do more with less? You're in luck. Laura Stack knows your to-do list is already packed to capacity, so she shows you how to accomplish more by doing less. Yes, you read that right. Stack's innovative time-management system lets you work less and achieve more. Following Stack's step-by-step Productivity Workflow Formula, you'll organize your life around the tasks that really matter and-this is crucial-let go of those that don't. Dozens of practical strategies will help you reduce your commitments, distractions, interruptions, and inefficiencies. You'll shrink your to-do list and save time-around ninety minutes a day-while skyrocketing your results and maintaining your sanity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781609945411
• Artikelnr.: 52899495

Autorenporträt

Laura Stack is president of The Productivity Pro, Inc., president of the National Speakers Association, and a popular keynote speaker on the topics of efficiency improvement, personal productivity, and time management. She is the author of four previous books, including Leave the Office Earlier.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Case for Reduction
Saving Our Own Lives
Harsh Realities
The Solution
Brand-New Model: The Productivity Workflow Formula
Step One: Determine What To Do
Why Do You Have So Much to Do?
What Is Your Productive Value?
Tracking Down Time-Wasters
Where Does Your Time Go?
To-Do Lists: Tracking What's Left
Triage: Wartime Prioritization
Summary: PWF Step 1 Checkup
Step Two: Schedule Time to Do It
About that 4-Hour Workweek Idea
Scheduling 101
Further Reducing Your Commitments
Learn to Say No--And Make it Stick
Rescuing Your Time from Meetings
In the Decision Comes the Dilemma
Summary: PWF Step 2 Checkup
Step Three: Focus Your Attention
Driven to Distraction
Handling External Distractions
Heading Off Internal Distractions
Slipping the Electronic Leash
Focus Aids
The Zen of Avoiding Distraction
Summary: PWF Step 3 Checkup
Step Four: Process New Information
Taming the Information Glut
Filing Precepts
Your Personal Time Management System
Basic Information Handling
The 6-D Information Management System
The E-mail Decision Tree
Summary: PWF Step 4 Checkup
Step Five: Close the Loop
Organized Implementation
The People Problem
Handling Micromanagers
Reducing Inefficiencies and Breaking Bottlenecks
The Quest for Constant Improvement
Continued Progress Requires Constant Reevaluation
Summary: PWF Step 4 Checkup
Step Six: Manage Your Capacity
Personal Energy
Get Some Sleep
Watch Your Diet
Exercise Your Body
Make Yourself Happier
Maintaining Your Energetic Edge
Summary: PWF Step 6 Checkup
A Final Note: An Extra Hour--Or More
The Productivity Workflow Formula (PWF) Self-Assessment
Notes
Index
About the Author

Rezensionen

This book will give you the tools you need as a leader to get more done yourself and through others. Laura Stack really is the Productivity Pro.
Mark Sanborn, President, Sanborn & Associates, Inc., and author of You Don t Need a Title to Be a Leader

Stack has captured in this book what those select few great leaders know: you cannot strategize your way to greatness. You execute your way there! A must-read for anyone who wants better results!
Peter Sheahan, President, ChangeLabs

A how-to for leaders who are serious about results. Make time to read this book then thank Laura for all the time you save on future projects!
Harvey Mackay, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive