Time is an issue for us all. Managing to cope, getting through everything, achieving a reasonable work/life balance seems to be more and more a problem. Time management is something we have to get right if we are to have decent quality of life - yet very few of us manage. Why? Why is it so difficult?

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Tony Atherton

30 Minutes to Manage Your Time Better  
Very compact introduction to time management, getting the key factors into a book that can be read in a single train journey. Condenses out the essentials quite effectively.

Brian Clegg

Instant Time Management
Over 70 exercises and techniques to enhance your time management skills. This is an easy-to-use action kit, bursting with exercises guaranteed to help you get more out of your day. Good value and effective.

Crash Course in Personal Development
If you want a more structured approach, this is a 30 unit course including exercises from Instant Time Management plus stress management and negotiation skills, providing a total of 150 exercises and techniques to provide essential personal development skills.

Stephen Covey

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
A huge best-seller. While it's arguable that a lot of it is common sense, and the book has been inflated out of all proportion, this is a very sensible set of principles. Probably best appreciated in the audio tape version, which is shorter and easy to absorb.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

Winston Fletcher

Balancing the 24/7
A very personal approach to guidance on work/life balance - Fletcher interviews 16 top UK business people including Richard Branson, Nicola Horlick and Lord Marshall for insights into work/life balance. Also available as a digital download:

Mark Foster 

Get Everything Done and Still Have Time to Play 
 A fairly conventional 'manage your priorities, not time' book, but doing well in the charts. Argues that it is important to make time every day for 'depth' activities to create 'an oasis of calm'.

David Freemantle 

The Stimulus Factor. 
Freemantle, author of Superboss, argues that it's is impossible to motivate anyone - they can only motivate themselves. But what you can do is to provide the stimuli that will encourage them into the right types of motivation. You can argue it's all a matter of semantics, but there does seem to be a fresh, exciting idea about motivation here from this one-time airline director. New 30 June 2001

Peggy Grall

Just Change It!
Subtitled "The Fast Track Guide to Personal & Professional Renewal" this is a "take charge of your life and make something of it" book. Though not technically time management, it has the same aims: to get you to do something more effective with the time you've got.

Donald Wetmore

KISS Guide to Organizing Your Life
An up-to-date self organization guide that takes in the world of PDAs and PCs.