No BS Time Management for Entrepreneurs  

 Dan Kennedy

 TBS The Book Service Ltd (9 Oct 2007)

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No BS Time Management for Entrepreneurs 
How much of your day is actually spent in productive work? Not the time you spend in your office staring at the computer screen, on the phone, checking your email, or dealing with the umpteenth question from that employee that always seems to need just another minute of your time. Productive time is the time you are actually earning money by directly working on a project.

No BS Time Management for Entrepreneurs explains that it's those little irritants and side tasks that only take a few minutes of your time that gradually and progressively eat away your precious time. Therefore, the only real way to make productive use of your time is to limit these distracters and focus on the real work at hand.

Though I had already realized a good deal of my own distracters and time eaters before I read this book, No BS Time Management for Entrepreneurs made me realize exactly how limiting these behaviours really are and how much more productive I could become. I don't have to limit sleep to a few hours a night. I just have to realize the value of my time and react appropriately.

Shallow and Full of BS
This was most disappointing. I bought 4 time management titles at the same time and this was the worst by a long way. It contains very little of practical substance and is mostly tired and obvious platitudes interspersed with tedious examples of some pretty gullible-sounding people, including the author. We have to wait until page 120 for the revelation that "there will always be more things to do than the time available to do them" - imagine what the previous 119 pages are like! My copy of this book is going on the compost heap along with all the other "BS".

Entertaining and educational
I have read a lot of time management books, looking for the "perfect" system. Well, you could say I have wasted a lot of time searching! However of all the books I have read, this has to be one of the best. Although aimed at entrepeneurs, there are some fundamental lessons that are universal. The reason for this is that the author takes an approach that is focussed on dealing with the people you work with, who are after all are the biggest cause of time wasting. He also asks some blunt questions about you- what is your time worth? As a businessman he puts this in monetary terms, but he also makes the point that if you are more efficent with your work time, then you will have more time for leisure. And this has a very high value. Unlike the majority of books on time-management which are written in a turgid style, this is a very entertaining read. Highly recommended.