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Getting Things Done by David Allen


Getting things done. Time management. Productivity. Whatever you call it, this is one of today’s critical issues. We all have too much to do and want to feel in control of our spiralling to do lists, our groaning inboxes and our bulging diaries. In terms of the amount of ‘stuff’ we try to cram in, we push at the boundaries of time and space when the holy grail is to achieve maximum impact with minimum effort. Read more

Help! How to be slightly happier and get a bit more done, by Oliver Burkeman

As the title makes clear, this book doesn’t offer the holy grail of happiness, productivity, time management or work-life balance. Help! is a tongue-in-cheek swoosh through the morass of self-help advice that assails us from the heaving shelves of the popular psychology sections of the bookshops.

 

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