Time is a precious resource, both irreplaceable and irreversible. But how can you learn to save time and spend it wisely? Effective Time Management will help you make the moset of every hour.
In this unique guide John Adair, a well-known figure in the management training field, focuses on the time available for daily use using a wide range of examples and case studies, helping to:
*identify long-term goals and middle-term plans
*plan the day and make the best use of your time
* learn to delegate and acquire time effectiveness in the office and at meetings
John Adair is an international leadership consultant to a wide variety of organizations in business, government, the voluntary sector, education and health, and has been named as one of the forty people worldwide who have contributed most to the development of management thought and practice.
Educated at St Paul’s School, John Adair has enjoyed a varied and colourful career. He served in the Arab Legion, worked as a deckhand on an Artic trawler and had a spell as an orderly in a hospital operating theatre. After Cambridge he became Senior Lecturer in Military History and Leadership Training Adviser at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, before becoming Director of Studies at St George’s House in Windsor Castle and then Assistant Director of the Industrial Society. Later he became the world’s first professor in Leadership Studies at the University of Surrey. He has written over forty books on leadership, management and history, which have been translated into many languages.
John Adair is married with three children. He lives near Guildford in Surrey.