Time Management

A month ago I was responsible for a column a week in The Times. Now, with this slot, it is two. And while it’s debatable to what degree such musings can count as “work”, I hope it’s not too contentious to claim that my workload has recently doubled. And this, together with other commitments, has created one of the oldest conundrums of business life: time management.

It is also one of the most tedious conundrums of business life. For years publishers have been producing tiresome books with titles such as Juggle! and Rethink Work!, proffering the same old tips, such as “combine housework with working out!” and “have meetings standing up!”

But things have livened up since the publication of Timothy Ferriss’s American bestseller The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich, in which the author claims that he went from earning $40,000 a year, working 80 hours a week, to earning $40,000 a month working just four hours by following a set of rules that are perhaps best labelled “extreme time management”...

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