Chapter 19. Managing Your Time

After you have finished reading this chapter, you should be able to complete the exercises and integrate the changes indicated into your behavior patterns to help you achieve a noticeable improvement in the management of your time.

If you establish sound goals for your department and yourself and learn to set priorities on a daily basis, will you automatically become more effective at managing your time? Not necessarily. You still need to deal with the basic problem of time allocation itself.

Why should you make a special effort to manage your time?

You will get employees off to a better start. Recent discussions with successful managers indicate that those who arrive at work twenty to thirty minutes ahead of ...

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