Taming the meeting
One of the most universal -- and often wasteful -- features of corporate life is the weekly departmental meeting. This all-hands-on-deck meeting tends to take …Read More
Writing About Time Management, Life, Careers & Family
Kirsten Gillibrand’s 168 Hours
My September 2009 issue of Glamour has a one page profile with life management advice from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who happens to be my senator …Read More
Finding time to read
One of the questions I'm encountering most with people logging their time for the 168 Hours project is "how can I find more time to …Read More
How different groups of Americans spend their time
Fascinating "charticle" on the 2008 American Time Use Survey at the New York Times website. Looks at how Americans of various demographics spend their days. …Read More
Welcome Globe and Mail readers!
There is a Q&A with me in Canada's Globe and Mail today called "Sorry Moms, 168 hours a week is plenty of time." I think …Read More
The book blurb
I am now filling out Penguin's Author Questionnaire. Among the requests was that I write my own synopsis/blurb for the book. After a while, I …Read More
Anticipating 168 Hours criticism
As I'm finishing up the draft of 168 Hours, I plan to send it to a number of test readers in order to see if …Read More
Using your mornings
I'm starting to get some great information coming in from volunteers who've kept time logs for 168 hours (I learned, for instance, that my little …Read More
A new twist on the “second shift”
Back in 1990, sociologist Arlie Hochschild coined the phrase "second shift" to describe the household labor married women did once they came home from their …Read More
How to spend your time: will you regret it?
Just read about a fascinating study in this month's Wired. Ran Kivetz, a professor of business at Columbia University, recently did some experiments that study …Read More