Summary : The Agile Manager's Guide to Getting Organized - Jeff Olson
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This work offers a summary of the book "THE AGILE MANAGER'S GUIDE TO GETTING ORGANIZED: How Highly Successful Managers Cut through the Clutter and Get Things Done" by JEFF OLSONMost good managers know what they need to do to achieve more, and try to be aware of how to focus on critical issues. However, the implementation stage of new, more efficient ideas is often frustratingly tricky: in The Agile Manager's Guide to Getting Organized, Jeff Olson explores how to get rid of mental clutter, simplify your commitments, get rid of extraneous paperwork, manage your workforce most effectively and identify and eliminate your eight great time wasters. Most of the measures he suggests are commonsense, and yet could have far-reaching consequences in your business life: keep a time log to see how you can avoid interruptions; make tight deadlines for important tasks to stop everyone from focusing on the less important ones; learn some stock phrases for getting yourself out of unwanted commitments; consider before attending a meeting whether you really need to be there. In short, Jeff Olson has produced a book that's stuffed full of advice that everyone can put into practice and benefit from. He's also writing from personal experience: 'I once made a list of thirty-five goals...I ended up burying it in a file cabinet. Now I have six key goals. Rather than depressing me, the list energizes me.'
