The Time Trap - Paperback

by Alec MacKenzie (Author), Pat Nickerson (Author)

The Time Trap has shown countless readers how to squeeze the optimal efficiency--and satisfaction--out of their work day.

This much-needed guide provides the quick solutions you need be more effective with your time and avoid and escape the so-called "time savers" that don't really work. Backed by decades of research with businesspeople around the world, authors Pat Nickerson and Alec Mackenzie explain how to:

• set realistic goals and make commitments they can keep;
• juggle multiple demands;
• estimate time needed on new tasks;
• pinpoint and combat the most tenacious time wasters;
• protect priorities;
• and upgrade personal productivity for professional success.

Plus, the fourth edition has been extensively revised to include technology-based solutions to the challenges and opportunities we all face in the virtual world.

Filled with smart tactics, revealing interviews, and handy time management tools, The Time Trap is your go-to resource for leveraging twenty-first century opportunities and overcoming challenges to maximizing your work time.

Back Jacket

Suffering from information overload? Being asked to do too much? Can't say no? If you're finding your days clogged with endless activities and responsibilities and your work life spinning out of control, it's time to employ some practical, realistic solutions to the age-old problem of "too much to do and too little time."

This new fourth edition of the classic book on time management gives you more powerful methods for both maximizing efficiency and getting the most satisfaction out of your workday. In The Time Trap you'll find out how to: - Avoid so-called "time savers" that don't really work. - Set realistic goals and make commitments you can keep. - Juggle multiple demands. - Accurately estimate time needed on new tasks. - Pinpoint and combat the most tenacious time-wasters. - Protect your priorities. Based on decades of research and interviews with businesspeople around the world--and extensively revised to include technology-based solutions to the challenges we all face in the virtual world--The Time Trap is loaded with smart tactics and priceless time management tools. Let this proven guide boost your personal productivity and professional success when time is not on your side. Praise for Previous Editions of The Time Trap "Alec Mackenzie provides an invaluable tool to anyone who wants to become more efficient. Here is a concise guide to the causes of poor time management, with both clear and crea-tive methods for eliminating them." -- Eleanor Brantley Schwartz, Chancellor, University of Missouri-Kansas City "This edition is Dr. Alec Mackenzie's best Time Trap book yet. He really understands the time traps that befall us all, and he provides answers that will make our lives more fruitful with less stress. I am delighted to be counted as a 'disciple' of his wisdom." -- Jim Van Houten, General Manager, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. Alec Mackenzie was an internationally known speaker, consultant, and expert on time management. Pat Nickerson, President of EBI Inc., San Diego, is the author of Managing Multiple Bosses. Her seminars on time and priority management have attracted 180,000 managers and professionals--business, government, and military--worldwide.

Author Biography

Alec Mackenzie was an internationally known speaker, consultant, and expert on time management.

Pat Nickerson (San Diego, CA), founder and president of EBI, Inc., is the author of Managing Multiple Bosses (978-08144-7025-1). A corporate trainer, she has trained more than 180,000 managers and professionals in time management.