No Nonsense: Time Management: 50 Tips to Hack Your Time and Get Everything Done

  • 1h 52m
  • Karen Tiber Leland, Keith Bailey
  • Red Wheel/Weiser
  • 2020

In today’s hurly-burly work environment, many businesspeople find it challenging to avoid distraction, stay focused, use their time and energy to maximum benefit, and gain ground on important goals and outcomes. In short, we are overloaded.

No Nonsense: Time Management helps you overcome this feeling of overload and avoid the traps that lead to an unproductive relationship with time. The book offers smart solutions, powerful habits, and proven time hacks for improving everyday work situations:

  • Harness the power of completion
  • Stay sane dealing with social media
  • Get a procrastination inoculation
  • Play the 80/20 game of accomplishment
  • Set goals
  • Make lists
  • Have more efficient conversations
  • Organize your email inbox
  • Retool your priority system
  • Identify your interruptions
  • Overcome multitasking madness

About the Authors

Karen Tiber Leland is the founder of Sterling Marketing Group. Her clients have included Twitter, LinkedIn, Apple, American Express, and Google. She is the bestselling author of nine books. Karen is a frequent media expert and has been interviewed by The Today Show, MSNBC, Fortune, Inc., Fast Company, NPR, CNN, and Oprah. She has spoken for Harvard, Yale, and TEDx.

Keith Bailey is an executive communications coach who works with companies such as Google, Fidelity Investments, Bank of America, World Vision, United Health Group, Netflix, Marriott Hotels, Lufthansa German Airlines, and the British government. Keith’s expertise and business insights have been featured in Fortune and Newsweek and on CNN.

In this Book

  • Introduction
  • Determine Your Current Level of Time Literacy
  • Understand Your Relationship with Time
  • Get Out of Time Denial
  • Keep an Activity Log
  • Make Your Goals Specific
  • Achieve Your Goals Every Day
  • Create Structure and Support for Your Goals
  • Beware the “Not-Goal”
  • Break Bad Habits That Hold You Back
  • Keep an Interruption Log
  • Avoid Interruptions from others
  • Stop Self-Interruptions
  • Overcome Multitasking Madness
  • Give Yourself a Procrastination Inoculation
  • Manage Outgoing and Incoming Calls
  • Size up Your Delegation Skills
  • Determine the Tasks to Assign
  • Create a Delegation Plan
  • Decide to Whom You Will Delegate
  • Give Every Meeting (Big or Small) Structure
  • Develop Good Meeting-Management Habits
  • Promote Participation in Meetings
  • Strengthen Your Meeting-Facilitation Skills
  • Create Connection When Video Conferencing
  • Make the Most of an Off-Site
  • Use Meetings to Step Back and Solve Problems
  • Use Live Conference Time Wisely
  • Create an Effective Daily To-Do List
  • Retool Your Priority System
  • Utilize the Four D's
  • Choose Paper or Digital
  • Generate Energy with Your To-Do List
  • Sort Your Stuff
  • Tame Your Paper Tiger
  • Clean Out Your Physical File Drawers
  • Review and Renew Your Paper Files
  • Capture Your Open Items
  • Break down Your Big To-Do's into Bite-Size Pieces
  • Broaden Your Definition of Finished
  • Cultivate Time-Efficient Conversations
  • Don't Get Caught in the “Yes” Trap
  • Move Your Body
  • Get a Good Night's Sleep
  • Take a Real Vacation
  • Stay Sane after Returning from Vacation
  • Give Your Laptop a New Lease on Life
  • Get Control of Your Email
  • Sort Out Your Electronic Inbox
  • Streamline Your Outgoing Email
  • Use Social Media Wisely
  • Conclusion
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