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Alan Lakein was an American author on personal time management, including How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life which has sold over 3 million copies.. Lakein graduated from Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School and resided in Santa Cruz, California.
Time management is the process of planning and exercising conscious control of time spent on specific activities—especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency and productivity. [ 1 ] Time management involves demands relating to work , social life , family , hobbies , personal interests and commitments.
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals is a 2021 non-fiction book written by British author Oliver Burkeman. The title draws from the premise that "the average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short... Assuming you live to be eighty, you’ll have had about four thousand weeks."
In 2007, Time magazine called Getting Things Done the self-help business book of its time. [17] In 2007, Wired ran another article about GTD and Allen, [18] quoting him as saying "the workings of an automatic transmission are more complicated than a manual transmission ... to simplify a complex event, you need a complex system".
Time confetti is a term coined by Brigid Schulte in her book Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One has the Time.Schulte uses this term as an analogy to describe how people today constantly switch between perceived obligations, managing time ineffectively due to both stress and never-ending to-do lists: a practice that results in the inability to perform any given task well.
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The Time Bind, a 1997 book, [12] was mentioned in Newsweek's multi-page feature about "The Myth of Quality Time". [1] The same issue of Newsweek had a full-page review [13] of another 1997 book, Time for Life, [14] which emphasizes that most people have a flawed "ability to separate faulty perception of time use from reality."