Getting Organized At Work: 24 Lessons For Setting Goals, Establishing Priorities, And Managing Your Time (mighty Manager)

Getting Organized at Work This page intentionally left blank “I’m amazed at how many time management courses talk about the ability to change time and reality. I say rather, ‘Embrace reality and see what you can do to take advantage of it.’” This page intentionally left blank “The key is action. Pick the ideas and strategies that apply to you. Then take action and make them work!” This page intentionally left blank Getting Organized at Work ឡ24 Lessons to Set Goals, Establish Priorities, and Manage Your Time KENNETH ZEIGLER New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto Copyright © 2008 by McGraw-Hill, Inc. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 0-07-159139-7 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-07-159138-9. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions, or for use in corporate training programs. For more information, please contact George Hoare, Special Sales, at [email protected] or (212) 904-4069. TERMS OF USE This is a copyrighted work and The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (“McGraw-Hill”) and its licensors reserve all rights in and to the work. Use of this work is subject to these terms. Except as permitted under the Copyright Act of 1976 and the right to store and retrieve one copy of the work, you may not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, reproduce, modify, create derivative works based upon, transmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, publish or sublicense the work or any part of it without McGraw-Hill’s prior consent. You may use the work for your own noncommercial and personal use; any other use of the work is str