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In Time Mastery, you’ll meet some of the chief time maters in American industry and study their profitable tactics. Among them are Paul Charron, chairman of Liz Claiborne, Inc., who champions the use of “white space” in everyone’s business calendar; and Don Knapik, creator of Amtrak’s Acela service, which delivers not travel but “time compression,” transporting passengers at high speed while letting them slow down and catch up on work. Like these leaders, you’ll learn to develop your temporal intelligence and turn it loose on creative problem solving.
Step by step, you’ll discover how to cultivate the seven behaviors that transform time from a management problem to a leadership opportunity:
• Reset your internal clock
• Get and set the organization’s tempo
• Navigate the stream of time
• Celebrate the past and future
• Embrace elasticity
• Go beyond calendars and clock
• Let time energize instead of enervate
Time mastery is packed with on-point and fascinating references to literature, music, history, math, philosophy, psychology, sports and movies. The wisdom in these pages will entertain and enlighten you in equal parts. Trust it: Once you stop the clock on time management, you’ll experience time in vastly new ways, and release a hidden torrent of leadership energy.
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