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It's about time...

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06 March 2008 / Liz Heathfield
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…that you started managing your time more effectively. LIZ HEATHFIELD provides some timely advice

'I wasted time and now doth time waste me…'

Shakespeare's Richard the Second may have been somewhat surprised to find his words in an article on time management; but we are all too painfully aware with impossible deadlines looming constantly and with that sinking Sunday-evening syndrome setting in yet again that time is totally irreplaceable.

As management guru Drucker puts it 'the supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand the supply will not go up. There is no price for it and no marginal utility curve for it. Moreover time is totally perishable and cannot be stored.

Yesterday's time is gone for ever and will never come back. Time is therefore always in exceedingly short supply'.

The gift of time

Everyone wants the gift of time and the ultimate feeling is that you have...

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