Synopsis
Use Time Or It Will Use You is a modern classic. First published in 1997, written by one of the world's foremost experts in Time Management. This book has helped thousands of people become highly effective managers of their most precious commodity. Whatever field of endeavor you are in, the principles outlined in this easy-to-read, practical guide can help you shift gears into a higher level of productivity and achievement. Use Time Or It Will Use You has a different focus from other time management books. It is designed to inspire, to motivate and to assist anyone and everyone who is interested in improving the quality of their life. According to Dromey, the greatest pleasure and satisfaction in life comes from the accomplishment of things that require large investments of time. In a nutshell, this book is about how to create that abundance of time that you need to invest to realize your long-term goals and ambitions. Each and every one of us has a great untapped potential to use our time much more effectively. If we exploit this potential we can accomplish things that will make our lives richer, make the world a better place, and give pleasure and inspiration to those we love and touch. Profits from the sale of this book will go to the Professor R. Geoff Dromey Foundation and Scholarship Fund to facilitate industry focused applied academic research to advance and improve systems and software engineering capability.
About the Author
R. Geoff Dromey was the Foundation Professor of Software Engineering in the School of Information and Communication Technology at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. He was the founder and Director of the Software Quality Institute, a leading transition agency of Software Engineering best practice since 1992. He was a co-founder of a successful software company, Calytrix Technologies (see http://www.calytrix.com), which works in the Defence Sector and has offices in Australia and the USA. His most recent research interests were in development methods that control complexity in the analysis and design of large-scale software integrated systems. Outcomes of this work over the past ten years have been the Behavior Tree representation and the Behavior Engineering systems analysis and development process (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior_Trees). He has authored two books in leading international computer science series (Prentice-Hall and Addison-Wesley) and authored/co-authored more than 50 research journal papers and main conference papers. One of his books has sold over 100,000 copies. He has been serving on the editorial boards of three international journals. Before joining Griffith University he has worked at Stanford University, The Australian National University, and Wollongong University. He has also spent sabbaticals at Oxford University, Stanford University and Strathclyde University. R. Geoff Dromey received a Ph.D. in chemical physics from La Trobe University in 1973. He was a member of the IEEE and was an Engineering Australia representative on the EA/ACS Joint Board.
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