Comments on: Book review: The Power of Slow http://www.pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com/2010/02/book-review-the-power-of-slow/ Project Management musings for one and all Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Time Management http://www.pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com/2010/02/book-review-the-power-of-slow/comment-page-1/#comment-288504 Time Management Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:34:16 +0000 http://www.pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com/?p=1697#comment-288504 Nice review of this book, I found that while the Power of Slow talks about "managing" our relationship with time so that we don’t feel that time controls us, I think is misses the one key distinction. Stephen Covey makes a clear point in one of his books, I think it was the 7 Habits of Highly Successful people, when he says, "time management is a misnomer.' You can't “manage” time, time just flows. But more importantly, what I took from this was that when you blame external things, like 'time', for your problems (i.e. “They didn’t give us enough time”) you give away all your power to change the situation. You must take 100% responsibility for your results. Thanks for the Power of Slow book review! Feel free to read my whole post on the idea that the term time management is a misnomer, or contradiction of terms: http://www.productivitychallenge.com.au/timemanagement/time-management-skills/ Nice review of this book,

I found that while the Power of Slow talks about “managing” our relationship with time so that we don’t feel that time controls us, I think is misses the one key distinction.

Stephen Covey makes a clear point in one of his books, I think it was the 7 Habits of Highly Successful people, when he says, “time management is a misnomer.’

You can’t “manage” time, time just flows. But more importantly, what I took from this was that when you blame external things, like ‘time’, for your problems (i.e. “They didn’t give us enough time”) you give away all your power to change the situation.

You must take 100% responsibility for your results.

Thanks for the Power of Slow book review!

Feel free to read my whole post on the idea that the term time management is a misnomer, or contradiction of terms: http://www.productivitychallenge.com.au/timemanagement/time-management-skills/

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]]> By: doc http://www.pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com/2010/02/book-review-the-power-of-slow/comment-page-1/#comment-275562 doc Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:49:04 +0000 http://www.pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com/?p=1697#comment-275562 Everyone like to work based on his/her developed plan rather than given one Everyone like manage him/herself rather than be managed by someone Everyone want to be respected as a reliable member I believe this is the human nature, so I think management should delegate planning job as much as possible because self planned task is the starter or motivator for self learning and self management. So based on this idea I developed my job management tool ChainOfAsker. Everyone like to work based on his/her developed plan rather than given one
Everyone like manage him/herself rather than be managed by someone
Everyone want to be respected as a reliable member

I believe this is the human nature, so I think management should delegate planning job as much as possible because self planned task is the starter or motivator for self learning and self management. So based on this idea I developed my job management tool ChainOfAsker.

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