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HBR Guide to Being More Productive (HBR Guide Series)
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HBR Guide to Being More Productive (HBR Guide Series)

by Harvard Business Review
June 2017
Beginner content levelBeginner
256 pages
3h 28m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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CHAPTER 6

Align Your Time Management with Your Goals

What goals are you aiming for in your work? Does the way that you’re spending your time actually correlate to those goals? Without answers to these questions, you won’t know how the many tasks on your list should be prioritized, organized, and ultimately accomplished. At the end of a busy day, sometimes it’s hard to figure out where the time went. The following simple process will help you prioritize your work and understand how you’re actually using your time.

List Your Goals

Ideally, you and your manager should meet at the start of each year to formulate a set of performance goals. From your discussion, you should understand how those goals tie into the company’s aims and mission. You likely ...

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ISBN: 9781633693098