The Time Trap: The Classic Book on Time Management

Lots of valuable tools to help me manage my days better. Looking back I should have gotten on hard cover or paperback so I could jot notes and mark pages for easy reference later.

This book helped me to have a better awareness of the time concept. This has various benefits on one's life: better balance between work and life, less stress, more productivity, and happiness and sense of control over life,etc.The book emphasizes the importance planning tied to goal-setting, determining the priorities without which we can easily lose the motivation to work ahead. It also identifies 20 biggest time wasters and gives resolutions to avoid/overcome them.Personally, I got the most benefit from the concept of "Ideal day" and "Time Log Analysis". Comparing my typical day to my ideal day and analyzing my typical day with the precise details in time log have helped me a lot.

If you have any time in the business world, and you think this book is a learning lesson for you, then I have no idea how you got this far. Even though this may be old information, this is something that everybusiness major should be handed as a survival guide in the corporate world. Even though it has been updated, it is still a little outdated. I was given this book to read, and was delighted to know that I am already doing several of these time saving tasks. I only wish I was given this when I first entered corporate America.I had to learn from several mistakes while swimming in the river of d' nile (denial). This is a must read for any Corporate, high tech, or customer driven professional

Needed to read this for my masters class and it was an interesting read. Gives you a different perspective on how to handle your time or how you are wasting it.

The approach this book takes is not conventional, and that may be the reason why you may love it, but here is why I did not:Writing Style & Topic Transition:The books attempts to approach various topics with numerous paragraph structures, sub sections, visuals, reader participation opportunities, etc. There is no pattern that encourages a streamlined reading cadence, since the combination of all of the writing formats leaves the reader lost in thought progression and logical interpretation of the message. The author's attempt at capturing helpful content appears to be in the form of "Oh yeah, add that too!", where topics overflow into a different writing formats with no real connections.Approach to Message & Disassociated Repetition:This book is not easy to read with the intention of learning. Mackenzie and Nickerson spend the majority of the context attempting to comfort the reader with overwhelming disjointed analogies. It is very difficult to interpret all of the perspectives offered by the authors to understand the larger picture, and as you trudge through the never ending examples, the chapter ends and there is no conclusion to the thought. It is on the reader to attempt to conceptualize what was attempted at being communicated, except with the help of the cheesy paragraph & chapter titles. I found that each of the chapters attempted to cover a different topic, but the theme for each chapter was identical, take time to document your time. There was no real empowerment in the format of each of the chapters as it followed the same approach regardless of topic: Attempt to sympathize with reader, under defining techniques, example of applying techniques, DIY section to replicate technique (hope you are in a Management position that can put perspective on the lesson), and finally a weak attempt at empowerment with a "Go Get 'em, Tiger" statement.Venting:The constant self-appreciation was nauseating. Apparently it was important for the authors to inject their successes of hosting seminars all throughout the book, which all seemed extremely unrealistic to the real world. Besides wasting my time working my way through this book, I would end up wasting even more time with outdated techniques of doodling graphics, notes, charts, etc. and be more overwhelmed then when I started. This book really could be 10 pages long, but unfortunately I still would not read it. I don’t have "time" to decipher this soap box hot mess.

Gave it five stars for overall price and delivery, this was sent to one of our participants for school - rating on their behalf.

The best book I've read to date showing the benefits of time management. The great impact of hiring the proper people to make up your team is key. You wish to pay small coin for your help, as expect the return in self worth and poor leadership.

This book was helpful to me, but only as a supplement to other books I have previously read. For someone seeking a comprehensive time management system and philosophy, I highly recommend Stephen Covey's writings and audio books. This title offers many good tidbits on honing time management skills, and for those tidbits I give it three stars. The author fails however, to give any clear cut methodology for determining personal values and highest priorities.This title is good as a supplement on time management, but for a primary volume look for something associated with Covey.

Pretty helpful, especially for leaders, business owners and management roles

This has some great stuff in but alot of this is covered in other books ive read that are adapted to the life after 2008 in terms iof time, I would recommend buying a Book called 10x instead this gives you much better ideas of handling time

Received in great condition, thank you

good read

... so werden z.B. die Themen Instant Messaging und Social Media nicht oder nur zu knapp erwähnt. Manches ist recht allgemein gehalten. Zudem hat das Buch eher das Upper-Management als Zielgruppe. Davon einmal abgesehen sind jedoch manche nützliche Gedanken für jedermann enthalten. Doch man sollte dann auch die Initiative mitbringen und die Vorschläge umzusetzten versuchen.