Top 3 Time Management Books: Baik Group Version
1. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Many people are currently wondering how to save time and effort to achieve desired results with short-term solutions. In this book, Covey states that we must allow ourselves to experience change to achieve real change. This book aims to adjust your character, so you see the world in a positive paradigm. The 7 habits are:
Be Proactive
Begin with the End in Mind
Put First Things First
Think Win-Win
Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
Synergize
Sharpen the Saw
2. The Power of Full Engagement: The Four Energy Management Principles That Drive Performance
The number of hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us are dynamic. The more we take responsibility for the energy we bring into the world, the more empowered and productive we become. The more we blame others or circumstances, the more negative and unproductive the energy we expend.
In this book, Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz state that there are 4 basic principles of energy management:
Principle 1: There are four sources of energy: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
Principle 2: Because energy capacity diminishes both with overuse and underuse, we must balance energy expenditure and renewal.
Principle 3: To build capacity, we must push beyond normal limits, training in the same systematic way that athletes do.
Principle 4: Positive energy rituals – particular routines for managing energy – are key to full engagement and sustained high performance.
The book The Power of Full Engagement also presents a new paradigm
3. The Time Trap
In this book, we discuss some crisis management, inability to say no, which makes us realize that the older we get, the more we understand how to say no and how it is good for our mental health, and so on. Here are 14 things that are discussed in this book:
Management By Crisis
Inadequate Planning
Inability to Say No
Poor Communication
Poorly Run Meetings
The World Gone Virtual
Email Mania
The Untamed Telephone
Incomplete Information and the Paper Chase
Confused Responsibility and Authority
Poor Delegation and Training
Procrastination and Leaving Tasks Unfinished
Socializing and Drop-In Visitors
Attempting Too Much
After reading those 3 books, you can implement how to divide your time, decide what needs to be done first, and what can wait with The Eisenhower Matrix:
