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Best Time Management Books
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The most successful people pride themselves on their ability to manage their time wisely. Your skills and talents alone may allow you to progress to a certain point, but never all the way. Only when combined with exceptional time management skills will you be able to achieve everything you want in life.
Balancing your career and personal life remains one of the most difficult challenges in today’s modern society. A successful job is so often a demanding one that robs you of your time with friends and family members.
At a certain point in life, this can make you regret some of the decisions you’ve made. In the same way, putting your career on hold to spend time with family can also have its negative effects, and sometimes ends up with you resenting someone you love dearly.
How do you start addressing this problem? At the end of the day, it is just about time management. When you know how to manage your time, you can make anything a possibility.
One thing that plays a huge part in time management is knowing what’s important. You should organize your priorities and find out which among them, in the long run, will benefit you most.
Of course, there are a ton of other factors to keep in mind, all of which will be discussed in my compilation of the best time management books. It’s time for you to stop wondering whether to put more time on your family or your business. It’s also time for you to know how important self-care is and why it’s crucial to give yourself a break now and then.
While you will never be able to completely break free of the hold time, give yourself some form of control over it and of your life. You can do all that and more with the help of the following books:
Best Time Management Books
Competing Against Time
The Decision Maker: Unlock the Potential of Everyone in Your Organization, One Decision at a Time
Within Buffer, we have a concept where anyone is able to make any decision, provided they get advice from people who will be affected by the decision. It is the way we've found to envision a company without managers or bosses. We're still at the beginning of this journey, it's an exciting one to be on and I think we're creating an incredible company to be part of.
This decision making concept originates from a company called AES. I already mentioned Joy At Work, AES co-founder Dennis Bakke's first book and this is a fable he wrote to describe a company changing how they work and adopting the Advice Process.
Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind
Question: What are your must-read books for business leaders?
Answer: Time to Think by Nancy Kline and Thrive by Ariana Huffington.
Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook
Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less
Principles: Life and Work
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure
I would say because it influenced me and created an imperial impact on my career path. An amazing book to read as it teaches you How to reprogram your mind in minutes to eliminate fears and phobia. Being a sales and marketing professional. I adopted many great changes in me and used some of the best techniques which are explained very well in this book by Grant Cardone.
I would definitely recommend it to everyone who wants growth. Be focused and keep fueling the fire of success with your tries and learnings!
The 80/20 Manager: The Secret to Working Less and Achieving More
Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less
The Pursuit of Wow! Every Person’s Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times
Managing Oneself
What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
Ben Horowitz recently published another book called "What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture".
When we were starting MavenHut, company culture was one of the things I struggled with.
I mean, I worked 70 hours/week, should my employees do the same (no, of course not!). My business parteners were working weekends as well during the early days of the company, I didn't want to. But people say that the leaders of the company should be part of the culture. So?
I just found out about the book so I only read the first few chapters, but it goes some ways I didn't think about.
The first part of the book is about the slave rebellion that created, in the end, Haiti. What is so interesting about this? Well, it's apparently the only slave rebellion in the world that was successful in creating a new country. How is it connected to company culture? I have no idea yet.
There's, apparently, another chapter on a prison gang. And another on Genghis Khan.
If you are confused, you're not the only one. But since I trust the author, I'm sure it will make sense at some point.
To-Do List Formula: A Stress-Free Guide To Creating To-Do Lists That Work!
The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
It's important that we make this transformation, because of what Clayton Christensen calls "the innovator's dilemma," where people who invent something are usually the last ones to see past it, and we certainly don't want to be left behind.
Developing the Leader Within You
Reinventing Organizations
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Over the years he’s [Tony Hsieh] recommended well over 20 business books — including his own, the 2010 bestseller Delivering Happiness and you can always find what he’s currently reading atop his cluttered desk. Start with Why is amogst those titles.
The Restaurant Manager’s Handbook
This is the bible for starting and running a restaurant. I recommend you get the printed version and the Kindle version. Use the Kindle version for quick reference and the printed version for study.