Put Time Management to Work: Get Organized, Streamline Processes, Use the Right Technology

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Put Time Management to Work

Have too much to do and not enough time to do it?

Learn how to manage your time on a daily basis

You WILL find useful organizational tips in this book.

Put Time Management to Work: Get Organized, Streamline Processes, Use the Right Technology
Peggy Duncan
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In Put Time Management to Work: Get Organized, Streamline Processes, Use the Right Technology, Peggy Duncan helps busy professionals and small business owners examine every aspect of how they spend their time, and offers many practical solutions for managing it.

Duncan offers time management tips that go beyond setting goals and knowing how to juggle priorities. The book begins with ways to eliminate clutter—whether it's on your desk or in your mind—and explains how to create a system so that it doesn't come back. After you get organized, you'll be able to think more clearly, so you'll then set goals to help you focus on the right things.

After that, you'll learn other timesaving techniques such as how to delegate, handle interruptions, say no, overcome procrastination, reduce time spent in meetings, and more. The book moves on from there and explains how to eliminate useless work by streamlining processes and creating procedures that are easy to follow.

To top everything off, the author explores timesaving technologies and computer tips that will help you finish work quicker. To help bring everything together, Duncan outlines two case studies that include practical tips and techniques you can use at home and at work to help you get back in control.

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Is this "time management" or "how to use microsoft outlook"?.......2003-01-16

I was particularly looking forward to the chapter on email, since my INBOX is perpetually swamped. However, this book spends too much time describing, step-by-step, how to use microsoft outlook. I already know the mechanics of how to use the program, and no real insight was provided.

Other chapters had similar problems - her suggested solutions are too rigid, don't address fundamental problems.
Here are her tips for organizing computer files:
1. Right click the start button, click Explore, then find My Documents folder , and double click to open.
2. Click File, point to New: then click Folder.
and on and on...

So, if your computer files are disorganzied because you don't know the basics of how to use a computer, you might benefit from this book. But if you'd like tips on how to deal with files that could go logically go in more than one place, ways to keep track of different versions of the same file, or anything more complex, forget it.

The topics on organizing your house & workspace are much better covered in Morgenstern's "Organizing From the Inside Out".

Put Time Management to Work.......2002-01-24

"Peggy Duncan has done a great job with this book. It is easy to read,highly practical and packed full of useful information to save a busy person time. Not only does it address time management from a priority management point of view but it provides nitty-gritty, real world examples and help to make you more efficient and effective. I gained a lot from it and highly recommend this book. If you want to get more done in your life, don't hesitate. Get this book and improve your life."

Have too much to do and not enough time to do it?.......2002-01-11

Put Time Management To Work: Get Organized, Streamline Processes, Use The Right Technology is a straightforward, no-nonsense guide expressly written to help busy people make the most of their limited waking hours as applied to unlimited needs and ceaseless demands. Chapters focus on everything from organizing one's desk to coping with other people's messes to setting goals, calendar management, effective delegation and much, much more. Highly accessible, straightforward, and practical, Put Time Management To Work is an absolute "must" for everyone from domestic homemakers to corporate executives who have too much to do and not enough time to do it!

Learn how to manage your time on a daily basis.......2001-11-12

With tips for road warriors, handling life's interruptions, and input overload, reading this book will help you learn and practice effective time management on a daily basis.

Whether you are organizationally challenged, or struggling with those chaos creators who are, PUT TIME MANAGEMENT TO WORK will help solve the mystery of manging your time once and for all.

You WILL find useful organizational tips in this book........2001-10-31

Peggy Duncan has compiled a wonderful group of organization and efficiency tips based on her years of experience in both her personal and professional life. It is a quick, easy read. The book is full of ideas that will help with time management, daily task control and how to keep your work area clean and organized. A department in our company was having constant problems with timely follow up and losing questions and requests submitted to them. We implemented a task log based on this book's recommendation and saw immediate and dramatic improvement.

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The turmoil that rocked Asian foreign exchange and equity markets after the middle of 1997 and that spread far afield is the third major currency crisis of the 1990s. Thailand, Indonesia, and South Korea suffered outright recessions in 1998 and forecast growth rates in the rest of emerging Asia are either negative or well below their pre-crisis level. In an effort to contain the crisis, almost $120 billion has been pledged in IMF-led official rescue packages. How could this happen to a group of countries that has been so highly regarded in the 1990s by private international capital markets? How could the crisis be overcome and what changes are necessary to prevent it from happening again? Morris Goldstein provides the answers to these questions by first explaining how the Asian financial crisis arose and spread. He traces the crisis through its three interrelated origins: financial-sector weaknesses; external-sector problems; and the contagion that spread from Thailand to other countries. Goldstein then outlines what needs to be done in the ASEAN-4 economies, in Japan and China, and in the design of IMF-led official rescue packages to end the crisis. Goldstein's final remarks offer specific proposals for improving the international financial architecture.

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The essential causes are the systemic crises.......1999-05-03

After reading this book,I don't agree with the opinions of the writer,at least part of them.Through my experience in the Suotheast Asian financial Crises,this cause is only secondary one among numbers of them. Most of the west economic analysers consider that the causes of Asian Financial Crises are Capital Flows.It flew into the vulnerable economic countries and destoried their state economy. But I think that the real causes are rooted in their economic frame system.With rapid economic rate,all Southeast countries didn't care about their domestic economy turn to multi-economic frame. For a long time,Aisan countries depended on export-oriented economic, this made them effcted by the international situation greatly. So,I consider that the Crises' coming is right at its time.This is the accumulation of Asian economic shortcomings.It must come,just for the time. For a assumption: if one country's economic system frame is as well as the West such as USA or the Eurapean countries,how can the Capital flow in and destory its economy? The "Capital Flows"is just an outside reason.The essential causes are the systemic crises.

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How To Legally Reason.......2000-08-11

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Harry V. Thompson
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In this ambitious and eminently relevant work of popular intellectual history, Arthur Herman, the coordinator of the Western civilization program at the Smithsonian Institution, makes a broad survey of the literature of cultural decline and a scatter-shot retort to the purveyors of doom and gloom. Herman attempts to right the balance unset by panicky prognosticators who either decry the defeat of Western values or herald the bankruptcy of Enlightenment idealism, despite the unparalleled worldwide ascendance of market economics, universal human rights, and representational, constitutional government.

Herman is at his best when making erudite replies to today's ill-informed peddlers of doom and gloom. But when he starts attempting to trace the history of "declinism," to philosophers from Frederick Neitzche to Martin Heidegger, and writers from Henry Adams to Robert Bly, his accusations often fall wide of the intended mark. His assaults on Jean Jacques Rousseau and W.E.B. DuBois will appear particularly unfair to those familiar with the works of these men, though readers who trust in Herman's abbreviated accounts of their thinking will be unknowingly misled. The "Great Ideas" framework Herman defends in the pages of this book ought to prize the close reading of important texts as much as it seeks to protect a sacrosanct canon or a static notion of prized ideals. Great ideas after all stand up to close attention. Herman's book conveys a confidence in the values of the Western tradition, but in making its argument, it inspires a casual disrespect from the works of other arguably great thinkers and artists based on Herman's swift survey--a dubious achievement and troublesome side effect of this challenging book.

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Extraordinary achievement.......2007-04-06

I first encountered the idea of decline, in the 1970's as a graduate student in physics, through the work of my professor, the historian of science Stephen G. Brush. Professor Brush associated the idea of decline with the discovery of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In spite of my admiration for Brush (whose book, THE TEMPERATURE OF HISTORY, Herman does not mention), I think that Herman has done a better job in describing the history of the Idea of decline, which indeed arose long before the Second Law was discovered. Rather, I now believe -- in large part because of the evidence Herman has presented in this book -- that the Second Law was interpreted as a guarantee of ineviable decline BECAUSE the virus of the idea of decline was already infecting the Western mind. (The physicist Pierre Duhem pointed out in the late 19th century that the Second Law actually does not imply inevitable decline.) Herman has written what is probably the best defense of the Enlightenment ideals, namely progress through physicial science and rationality, that I have seen in many years. Herman describes at length the personal connections between the philosophers of decline, and I think this description is one of the book's greatest strengths. Herman emphasizes the remarkable fact that all the Decliners, Left and Right, were united by a deep hatred for both Newtonian mechanics and Christianity. On reflection, this common hatred is not surprising, since these are the foundation of modern human civilization which the Decliners also hate and aim to destroy, as documented by Herman at length in this book. An extraordinary achievement. I'm very pleased that there are still scholars like Herman. With men like Herman around, writing books like this, the Decliners may yet fail to destroy civilization.

difficult read - but very insightful.......2005-09-23

Arthur Herman is a detail person and has undertaken massive research to produce this book. I learned a great deal about the history of pessimistic thinking by "intellectuals" looking for ways to have thier governments take care of them and "solve" societies ills. When applied to today's "intellectuals" I learned that there really is not much new thinking going on. Difficult read, but worth the effort.

Don't buy this book.......2005-06-25

I have never seen a book so full of factual errors as this one. There are better books out there on this subject - don't waste your money.

Incidentally, Herman is a well-known white supremacist. Potential customers should keep this in mind (even if they don't have a problem with it).

Prophets of doom.......2003-03-15

The viewpoint of Spengler on the decline of the West is an insidious thesis whose continued popularity and beguiling appeal endures notwithstanding the severe flaws that emerge on closer examination. The same could be said for Toynbee's elaboration of the idea of the West's inevitable decline. Herman here joins the ranks of the critics and, despite a prickly bias in his viewpoint, makes a good case for the fallacy of the prophets of doom. And this via the history, e.g. such works as Nordau's Degeneration, of the constellation of ideas behind these first of the 'postmoderns'. In some ways the view of the classical liberal is an appropriate response to the cockeyed conservatism of Spengler, and here we have the correct suggestion the rise of the modern is a creative era in world history, and not the tail end of some Faustian civilization beginning in the year 1000 AD.
Still, the issue of decline won't go away, if only because nothing lasts forever. But the latter is not an historical thesis or theory, and it is false to say that decline is inevitable, let alone that some invigorating barbarism will renew our esthetics. So far from being an aberration the Enlightenment brought into being a new age of history, and to foresee decline, and this unconsciously willed as some perverse progress, bespeaks only the idiotic epigone of Nietzche. Herman makes this basic point in a fashion that might not sit well with the mystique of the Spenglerian horde. As for Toynbee, his mechanics of history simply cannot deal with the facts of the rise of the West or its significance in any intelligent way, as if the author stepped from some medieval monastery to be appalled at the end times in the birth of freedom. Let's hope we don't go down fighting against this tide of willed self-destruction which seems attractive to the enemies of the Enlightenment. A bit 'thinktankish', but a useful work.

The survey compensates the rest........2000-05-03

This book is a decent introduction to some of the most important trends of though on decline in the modern world. It is worth for that, as little else of what the author writes is coherent with these chapters. Basically, he believes that there is no real decline. His conservative liberalism is in constant conflict with the ideas he talks about, which in the end led me to think that he's unwillingly proving to be the wrong one.

The Age of Two-Faced Janus: The Comets of 1577 and 1618 and the Decline of the Aristotelian World View in the Netherlands (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)

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Holding up a Mirror : How Civilizations Decline

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Some good things, but too ambitious and limited

Holding up a Mirror : How Civilizations Decline

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According to Glyn-Jones, the central dilemma of history is this: the dynamic that promotes economic prosperity arises largely from the conviction that the material world alone constitutes true 'reality'. Yet that self-same dynamic, developing into a critique of all belief in the supernatural as at best superflous, and at worst a damaging superstition, undermines the authority of moral standards and thus leads eventually to the destruction of the very security, prosperity and artistic achievement on which civilizations rest their claim to greatness. Focussing on dramatic entertainment as the barometer of social change, this book shows in vivid detail how the thesis worked itself out in four different civilizations, those of Greece, Rome and medieval Christendom and now in our own contemporary society.

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Some good things, but too ambitious and limited.......2002-07-16

The author, Glynn-Jones, (British) wrote this book in 1995 when she was in her seventies. She worked during her life for a "humanitarian" organization and then for a university as a research fellow.

She does realize that the West has long been in a phase of civilizational decay, and endeavors to study this. This I highly praise, as rare are those who see the ship sink - I mean are strong and honest enough to consider the decadence of their own civilization and even its biological death of its species (as Buchanan courageously with his book The Death of the West.) So she put a lot of work in this project and has produced a thick book, 650 pages.

She relies mainly on the insights of the famous sociologist of decadence, Pitirim Sorokin. This is the first problem, because this is too narrow. She should have been more critical and see what is lacking or simply wrong with Sorokin, and also draw from the other leading cultural sociologists, Arnold Spengler and his American disciple Arnold Toynbee, both of whom Glynn simply dismiss as being without insights. This is a dead track, as Sorokin for example restricted his study project too much to the opposition between religion / asceticism vs materialism / hedonism within religion and art, and this mainly for Europe. Thinkers such as Spengler, Toynbee and Francis P. Yockey (Imperium) had a broader and were very insightful, contrary to Glynn's prejudice. This is not meant to demean Sorokin, but only to criticize narrow-sightedness for such broad studies.

What Glynn does is to rehash Sorokin's analyses from a Puritan / Calvinist perspective. Whereas Sorokin saw Protestantism as a catastrophic decay (think of the destruction / trashing of European medieval and renaissance art, puritanism, fundamentalism, individualism, etc.), Glynn has to disagree and even speaks positively of Puritanism, its censorship, etc. Her book turns out into a Calvinist version of Sorokin works according to the idea of the fundamentalist preacher Francis Schaeffer, as exposed in his book Escape from Reason, of book replete with historical and philosophical errors. She refers to the book in her introduction, I read it, saw it was worthless in itself, but useful to understand Glynn's thinking. Glynn seems obsessed by the opposition between puritanism, religious fundamentalism on one hand, and hedonism on the other hand, and this is probably why she draws on Sorokin.

Another limitation with her book is that she restricts herself to European civilization, while claiming in the book title to deal with civilizations in general. To the contrary, when Spengler humbly named his book "The Decline of the West", he did consider non-Western civilizations as well. Besides Glynn see the European medieval period as distinct civilization from its modern continuation, whereas I think the latter should not be separated from the former, bu seen as a long agonic phase of decay.

The last 300 pages of the book deal with the period after World War Two, where she try to vindicates Sorokin's prediction. This is the only thing I found interesting as she try to pursue Sorokin's work, albeit from a puritan perspective and without the support of a research team. As she had insisted on the entertainment culture of decaying Rome, etc. she can expose and condemn the decadence of the American way of life, its superficiality, its show business, sex, pornography, abortion, lack of biological reproduction. All of those changes are quite obvious, and she sometimes as some good insights. For example, concerning the suicide of the white race (p. 515) , she sees that liberal (capitalist) government favor non-white immigration because they think in terms of economics (thus short term.) I noted that she is very much for the Jewish religion, but see Islam as a great danger, something strange given that the political influence of Moslems is very weak and that they are as fundamentalist as she is concerning the moral issues she focuses on.

I welcome any serious book on the decay of the West, so I welcome this book, which is probably the best one around for Puritans and other fundamentalist Protestants, which I am definitely not. However, other readers will find many more insights and issues in books such as Spengler's Death of the West, Yockey's Imperium, Buchanan's Death of the West, Duke's My Awakening. And if they are courageous, they will try to read Sorokin's and Toynbee's voluminous works. So doing, one avoids the limitations in Glynn's book.

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We are accustomed to thinking of science and its findings as universal. After all, one atom of carbon plus two of oxygen yields carbon dioxide in Amazonia as well as in Alaska; a scientist in Bombay can use the same materials and techniques to challenge the work of a scientist in New York; and of course the laws of gravity apply worldwide. Why, then, should the spaces where science is done matter at all? David N. Livingstone here puts that question to the test with his fascinating study of how science bears the marks of its place of production.

Putting Science in Its Place establishes the fundamental importance of geography in both the generation and the consumption of scientific knowledge, using historical examples of the many places where science has been practiced. Livingstone first turns his attention to some of the specific sites where science has been made—the laboratory, museum, and botanical garden, to name some of the more conventional locales, but also places like the coffeehouse and cathedral, ship's deck and asylum, even the human body itself. In each case, he reveals just how the space of inquiry has conditioned the investigations carried out there. He then describes how, on a regional scale, provincial cultures have shaped scientific endeavor and how, in turn, scientific practices have been instrumental in forming local identities. Widening his inquiry, Livingstone points gently to the fundamental instability of scientific meaning, based on case studies of how scientific theories have been received in different locales. Putting Science in Its Place powerfully concludes by examining the remarkable mobility of science and the seemingly effortless way it moves around the globe.

From the reception of Darwin in the land of the Maori to the giraffe that walked from Marseilles to Paris, Livingstone shows that place does matter, even in the world of science.

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Now what is science?.......2006-02-03

Often we are under the impression that science is something well-defined, the same everywhere and at any time. Philosophers of science have already questioned these assumptions. Historian of science, David Livingstone, supports the conclusions of those philosophers by showing what people consider to be science changes depending on time and especially place.

In this book, Livingstone focuses explicitly on the geographical variations in what is considered to be science. According to Livingstone, "the meaning of scientific theories is not stable; rather, it is mobile and varies from place to place" (4).

I found this an extraordinarily interesting book. Livingstone writes well, uses many examples and to me indubitably shows that what is considered "science" is not the same everywhere. (This is also illustrated by the discussions about Intelligent Design, which are prominent in the United States but that - due to a difference in what is considered science - hardly have an impact in Europe.)

I warmly recommend this book to all those historians, philosophers, and theologians, interested in the question "What constitutes science?"

Putting Science in its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge [A book review from: Journal of Historical Geography]

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Putting Science in its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge [A book review from: Journal of Historical Geography]
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"At the heart of our land and wildlife problems lies the fact that…we are still protecting wild places much as we did in the years when Clagett, Langford, and Theodore Roosevelt were at work. Congress, the White House, the state and wildlife agencies, and even private conservation groups are continuing to draw boundaries around wildlands with the presumption that everything that lies within those boundaries will be safe and sound. Study after study has shown that this approach is not working, yet we rarely trifle with the idea that our initial premises might be wrong, that we started out at square one and blundered off in the wrong direction.…" —Roger DiSilvestro from Reclaiming the Last Wild Places

Reclaiming the Last Wild Places. A New Agenda for Biodiversity. (book reviews): An article from: Issues in Science and Technology

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Reclaiming the Last Wild Places. A New Agenda for Biodiversity. (book reviews): An article from: Issues in Science and Technology
Niles Eldredge
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Title: Reclaiming the Last Wild Places. A New Agenda for Biodiversity. (book reviews)
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Date: September 22, 1993
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