by Harold Taylor | Mar 29, 2019 | General Time Management
Microsoft Corporation’s study of people working found that on average, they were interrupted 4 times per hour, and a distracted worker takes nearly a half hour to get back to and continue a task. 28% of a typical worker’s day is taken up by interruptions and recovery...
by Harold Taylor | Mar 12, 2019 | General Time Management
Manage your email through self-discipline. Handling email is one activity that you must control if you are going to master technology. It seems to be increasing exponentially for most people. With the mobility of today’s workforce and work itself being more a state of...
by Harold Taylor | Mar 6, 2019 | General Time Management
Is the Internet making us stupid? We tend to ridicule those who print articles from the web instead of reading them in electronic format where they may be accompanied by links to supporting information, images and videos. But according to Nicholas Carr, author of The...
by Harold Taylor | Feb 28, 2019 | General Time Management
A balanced life requires planning. Regardless of whether we are on a flexible hour system, or we’re a telecommuter or a frequent flyer, the line between work and personal time has become blurred. We can work in the evening, in a car or at a ball park. Work is no...
by Harold Taylor | Feb 25, 2019 | General Time Management
How to Decide Mark McCormack, in his book, What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School (Bantam, 1984), gives some good advice on decision-making. He claims that many times we actually make a decision without realizing it, even as we are still trying to come...
by Harold Taylor | Feb 22, 2019 | General Time Management
The more things in your life that you leave undone, the more anxiety and stress you experience. Completed work does not produce stress. People feel great and are energized when they get things done. It’s the uncompleted items that distract them and drain their energy....
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