Time Management In An Instant: 60 Ways to Make the Most of Your Day

by Keith Bailey, Karen Leland

The In An Instant series is a new brand of user-friendly, engaging, and practical reference guides on core business topics, which capitalizes on the authors' extensive experience and knowledge, as well as interviews they have conducted with leading business experts. Written in an upbeat and engaging style, the series presents 60 tips and techniques with anecdotes, examples, and exercises that the reader can immediately apply to make their work life more efficient, effective, and satisfying. Time Management In An Instant helps the reader overcome this feeling of overload and avoid the traps that lead to an unproductive relationship with time. It offers field-tested time habits and expert advice based on the latest research that will help the reader better manage, create, and spend their time with more satisfaction and results.

Genres: Productivity, Psychology, Self Help, Nonfiction

160 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2008

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Reviews

[Malik Aljabri · Rating 3 out of 5]

كتاب جيد عن إدارة الوقت و لكنني أحسست أن به الكثير من الحشو في الكلام ، ليزيد عدد الصفحات ربما ، كان من الممكن أن يختصر لربما في نصفه ، أفكار جيده تحتاج لتطبيق طبعا ، يفيض في آراء العمل و يقصر الأمور على الحياة الشخصية ، غير مواكب لطرق إدارة الوقت الحديثة لأنه يتكلم كثيرا عن الأوراق و أداره الأوراق ، مفيد و لكنه غير موجز

[Hala Alsalimi · Rating 3 out of 5]

قرأته بالنسخة العربية المترجمة و قد يكون رأيي متحيز لأن الكتاب هدية من مديرتي الغالية و لكن بالفعل وجدته مختصر و مفيد بشكل كبير. يركز الكتاب على الجوانب العملية أكثر فيعطيك تمارين عديدة لتكتشف الخلل في إدارتك لوقتك بالإضافة إلى الجداول التي تستفيد منها في تنفيذ مهامك اليومية. تطرق الكتاب للعديد من الموضوعات الشيقة مثل التعامل مع الملفات و تنظيم المكتب و التفويض و إدارة الاجتماعات و كل ماله علاقة بوقتك بشكل مباشر. كتاب رائع انصح به كل من يريد أن يحسن استغلاله للوقت.

[M · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book.

[Ashley]

Woof. Did not enjoy and did not find it to be at all helpful. 🙄

[Cheryl Malandrinos · Rating 5 out of 5]

Do you have too much to do and not enough time to do it in? Are distractions and interruptions making you lose focus? Do you wish you could be a productive, effective leader?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, it's time to invest in "Time Management In an Instant: 60 Ways to Make the Most of Your Day".

The winning team of Karen Leland and Keith Bailey, partners in Sterling Consulting Group, come together again with this new book to help your life and your business run smoothly, effectively and productively.

"Time Management in an Instant" is not a quick fix to your time management issues. It is a lifestyle change that will help you overcome that chronic feeling of being overwhelmed that leads to procrastination and diminished productivity. Beginning with how to assess your time management skills, Leland and Bailey show you how to achieve your goals every day, create to-do lists that motivate you, enjoy your vacation and avoid chaos when returning from vacation, plan productive meetings and manage day-to-day tasks while reducing stress.

Having specialized in time management and organization for three years now, I've made some of the same suggestions to my readers and use those tips myself; so I know they work when applied religiously.

With assessment quizes, exercises and examples, "Time Management in an Instant" will put you on track and help you stay on track. And best of all, it shows you how to apply these concepts to both your professional and personal life so that you gain a better overall balance.

Every business in America should have at least one copy of "Time Management in an Instant".

[Dinah · Rating 2 out of 5]

This one was a mixed bag. On the one hand, a lot of tips brought together in one place; on the other, deeper concepts are not necessarily given the depth or context they're due if one is to really internalize them and change habits. I wouldn't recommend it to someone who hasn't read Getting Things Done and some of the other most popular time management books - to whom these authors owe a debt of gratitude - but if you know enough to see who they're paraphrasing it's a useful aggregation of ideas. One particularly bad thing is that they did not include a bibliography pointing to those other sources. Some were cited in the text, but haphazardly (e.g. no mention of David Allen's Getting Things Done in tip 19 "Capture Your Open Items" which is practically an abstract of a chapter of his book).

[Darnel Logan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a good book that taught me a lot of tips about how to better manage my time and organize my life in ways to get more things done but the problem that i h ave with this book is that some of the rules (probably about 15 out of the 60) are geared almost completely towards business men and women who have complicated work schedules. Those tips are irrelevant to me since i don't live that kind of lifestyle (im a student). So essentially 25% of the book didn't apply to me at all. And the rest of it was, like i said,just tips and tricks. Very little science and very skipping on the details and the explanations. That said, I would still purchase this book.

[Sarah Alkhudair · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't find it very helpful for me since I'm still a student ,, It is helpful for company employees and business wo/men more

[Scientia · Rating 2 out of 5]

this book contains some valuable advice, although a bit repetitive and mostly directed towards business people, it's still worth taking a quick look at.

[Constance Matthews · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good. Plain language. Tips & tricks I wouldn't have come up with on my own.