The ideas
1 See where time goes now
2 Plan, work—work, plan
3 Setting clear objectives
4 Speculate to accumulate
5 Using Pareto’s law
6 Tackling the tyranny of the urgent versus the important
7 Give clear instructions
8 Beware favorites
9 Use a “document parking” system
10 Aim at infl uencing particular result areas
11 Make use of checklists
12 Use abstracts
13 The best assistant
14 Communicate with your secretary
15 Be brief
16 A clear diary
17 What kind of system?
18 Good, better, best . . . acceptable
19 Trust the computer?
20 Cancellation as a time saver
21 Motivate your people
22 Thinking ahead
23 See the broad picture
24 Avoiding a common confusion
25 “Everybody’s gone surfing, surfing . . .”
26 And let’s send a copy to . . .
27 Telephone efficiency
28 A little help from some “special” friends
29 Give yourself some time rules
30 Don’t write
31 Avoid purposeless meetings
32 Handling telephone interruptions
33 Keep papers safe and tidy
34 Do not put it in writing
35 A magic word
36 The productive breather
37 Write faster
38 A cosmic danger
39 Morning, noon, or night
40 Technology to the rescue
41 Time to stay put
42 When being regular is a problem
43 Time to get noticed
44 The most time-saving object in your office
45 What I meant to say . . .
46 Avoiding meeting mayhem
47 In the beginning—or not?
48 The confl ict/time equation
49 Too many head chefs
50 An idea that generates ideas
51 Reward yourself
52 Best time for appointments
53 But I know where everything is
54 One thing at a time—together
55 At the bottom of the pile
56 Resolve to “blitz the bits”
57 “If I had wanted it tomorrow I would have asked
for it tomorrow”
58 Be secure
59 Where you are may be as important as what you do
60 Do a swap
61 Food for thought
62 Less in touch, more time
63 In times of (travel) trouble
64 While you were away
65 “Well, it’s always been done like this”
66 I was just passing
67 Encourage and help others
68 To meet or not to meet . . .
69 Categorize to maintain the balance
70 On occasion, let’s talk
71 Well spotted
72 Fighting the plague
73 Let the plant grow
74 Over to you
75 Know when to leave well alone
76 Is that the time?
77 Making it clear
78 Soldiering on
79 Driven to distractions
80 A clear agenda = a shorter meeting
81 The most time-saving phrase in the English language
82 Work to rule!
83 A balancing act
84 Avoid duplicating information unnecessarily
85 The right methodology?
86 Make skills save time
87 Timing and meetings
88 Plan your journey
89 Working the plan
90 Allow for the unexpected
91 So cats can play
92 Coping with IT change
93 Time to tell a white lie?
94 On the move
95 Never compete with interruptions
96 Meetings: where to hold them
97 A time-aware team
98 More possibilities
99 Focus on what achieves results
100 Follow Sinatra
Appendix
1 Chairing a meeting
2 Delegating