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A famous planning consultant describes his successful techniques for determining task priorities, managing time, and performing under pressure
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How to Get Control
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How to Get Control
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Penguin Publishing Group, 1974
ISBN 10: 0451075706
ISBN 13: 9780451075703
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Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 3287370-6
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How to Get Control
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Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0451075706I5N00
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How to Get Control (Signet Books)
Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
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How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life
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A Signet Book New American Library, Inc. Times Mirror, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0451075706
ISBN 13: 9780451075703
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Seller: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Thus 9th Printing. Previous Owner Markings (Highlighting, Underlining, Marginalia Throughout); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front Cover Heavily Chipped; Rear Cover Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: E 7570. CONTENTS: 1. Why You Should Care About Your Time 2. Your Payoff: Control Of Your Life 3. Drift, Drown Or Decide 4. Control Starts With Planning 5. What Do You Really Want From Life? 6. Get Started Right Now 7. How Scheduling Helps 8. How To Find Time You Never Knew You Had 9. Making The Most Of Priorities 10. Tasks Better Left Undone 11. Accommodating Yourself And Other People 12. How To Creae Quiet Time For Yourself 13. Ask Lakein's Question 14. Using The Swiss Cheese Method 15. How To Find Instant Tasks For Instant Involvement 16. Try Stimulus Change To Keep Involved 17. Sometimes It Pays To Slow Down 18. Don't Let Fear Get In Your Way 19. The Real Price of Delay 20. Learn To Stress The Benefits 21. How To Get Back After You've Escaped 22. How To Do Better Next Time 23. Do Your Best And Consider It A Success; Appendix: How I Save Time. SYNOPSIS: WHAT DO GLORIA STEINEM AND I.B.M. HAVE IN COMMON? Both have sought the advice of Alan Lakein, famous time-management expert, in order to minimize the time they waste and to maximize their productive capabilities. Now his practical wisdom and amazingly effective simple rules are available to you: how to build your willpower; how to keep going without fatigue; how to waste time for pleasure and profit; how to work smarter, not harder; and much, much more . . . Reading this book can be the wisest investment of your time that you have ever made! - and - ARE YOU ALWAYS "BUSY" YET NEVER SEEM TO GET ANYTHING DONE? Alan Lakein has written this practical, no-nonsense guide to managing your personal and business time. He shows you how to set short-term and long-term goals, establish priorities, organize a daily schedule, and achieve better self-understanding. He even provides tips for building willpower, creating quiet time, defeating unpleasant tasks, and keeping yourself on target. IBM, The Bank of America, Gloria Steinem, and thousands of businessmen, professionals, homemakers, and students have benefited from his program--now you can make it work for you. Time is life. This book is your key to liberating all the vital energies and vast potential you possess. Alan Lakein, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the Harvard Business School, is the founder and president of Alan Lakein & Co., the only company in the country devoted exclusively to time management. Mr. Lakein holds individual counseling sessions for executives at huge corporations and small businesses, and runs university extension seminars for groups as large as 5,000. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 004545