CHAPTER 2IN THE FIELD: HOW TIME MANAGERS MAKE IT WORK
“Time, gentlemen, time! Time, gentlemen, time!”
—BRITISH PUB OWNERS’ TRADITIONAL CLOSING CRY
Following an in-company seminar, a time consultant walks through the office to discover one of his attendees breaking a cardinal rule—answering his own telephone! “I hope you’re following the other advisories better than that,” the consultant says, half seriously, half banteringly. “Story of my life, Dr. Stevenson. Made an A on the lecture, an F on the field-work.”
Before you get into the science of time management, take a trip to the field. Watch inventive time managers wrestle with what Shakespeare called “the clock-setter, that bald sexton, time.” Then, as you dig into the science of time walloping, ...
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