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For managers and small business owners, effective time management is not an abstract consideration. On the contrary, time management skills can be the difference between keeping a job and losing one, staying in business or closing up shop, frustration or fulfillment.

Because managers are responsible for managing others people’s time as well as their own, the impact of bad or good time management is immediately evident for them, every day.

I feel that the time has come for a book on time management that is written with managers in mind, does not waste the reader’s time, and marries inspiration with pragmatism. The book you are holding in your hands is the product of nearly four decades of management experience in numerous fields. It contains the distilled knowledge of many time management experts as well as my own experience and that of the managers whom I interviewed for this project.

UP AGAINST THE CLOCK: A MANAGER’S GUIDE TO TIME MANAGEMENT covers the essential gamut of time management wisdom, and provides useful information about attitude and self-evaluation, organizing a clear and streamlined workspace, running effective meetings, getting the best out of employees, and generally “greasing the wheels” of an optimally efficient work environment. One of my hopes for this book is that you might benefit from some of my own early mistakes.

The book’s purpose is to effectively double your time efficiency with tested and proven time-saving methods that apply to a variety of day-to-day situations. If the ideas presented in this book are practiced diligently, they will lead to success both on and off the job, including the achievement of overarching life goals.

You can use this book as a handy reference manual, a primer to be read straight through from start to finish, or both. It is also a workbook. As efficiency is a hallmark of time management, I have strived to be concise, and to keep the table of contents straightforward and simple. I think you will find it easy to adapt this book to your needs.