The Limitations of Sixty-minute Hours

Stan Danton’s sixty-minute hours are keeping his company from the growth it could be enjoying. Those same sixty-minute hours are the reason his workweek is so long. And because he feels that he must master new skills as minute hours in his quest for knowledge. No wonder he has no time for lengthy vacations. No wonder people consider him a workaholic. No wonder Stan is somewhat of a stranger to his own kids.

Some people might consider Stan a fairly wealthy man. If you consider his home, his company, and his savings account, you might be impressed with his wealth. But if you looked deeper and saw the way Stan is living his life, you’d realize that his work and lack of understanding of time have impoverished the man. He only has the trappings of wealth. The reality is that Stan has been living in the edge of time bankruptcy, never having a surplus of time, constantly enslaved by his lack of it.

What Stan needs so desperately is something that no amount of money can buy. He needs more time. He needs more minutes in each hour. He needs a system to give him constant access to those minutes. He needs ninety-minute hours.

Slowly, very slowly, it is dawning on Stan that he lacks time. Slowly, he is realizing that he can get it. And it’s not even all that difficult.

The first thing Stan must comprehend is that new findings in technology and psychology have given humankind a new degree of control over time. He must learn that it is possible to do a myriad of things faster than ever before, to put ninety minutes into his hours. Then, he must determine how to put the maximum number of ninety-minute hours into his life.

The most ancient of the tools is the fine art of delegating. Once you have the tool of delegating, you are able to get down to the business of business and leave behind the time-consuming details, tasks that can be handled by assistants, receptionists and other people in the company.

Computers can save work time s well as communicating time.

Discussion

1. How do you control your time?

2. What could be done to manage your time?

GRAMMAR REVISION

CONJUNCTIONS

Exercise 1. Change the sentences. Mind to keep the idea:

1. Neither loans nor credits may be the source of forming the partnership’s share capital.

2. All three identity cards have become available due to work of several organisations.

3. Along with reduction of the tax-deductive expenses, one should adjust the tax credit, paid on acquiring the said items.

4. Despite the following is not provided for in Law no.1393, the next step on the way of recognising the products as reusable should be the product examination.

5. According to this view corporate managers have been placed in a position of public trust.

6. When markets were controlled neither cost nor quality seemed very important.

7. In recent years, much more attention has been given to the costs, as well as the benefits, of government regulation.

8. Business had a state in the political system of each nation as well as in the outcome of individual issues.

9. Strategic interests may be indirect as well as direct.

10. Operations managers are employed in service industries, as well as in manufacturing companies.

11. The unemployed as well as the more qualified receive an unsatisfactory training in entrepreneurship.

12. The legislation concerning foreign trade, customs and guarantees to foreign investments as well as consumer protection is improving.

13. With this in mind it is just as important to learn from unsuccessful policy experiences as well as from successes.

14. Scholars from the developed industrial countries as well as from the Central and East European countries have shown considerable interest in the problems of industrial policy business organisation, entrepreneurship and small business development.

15. Business has a stake in the political system of each nation as well as in the outcome of individual issues.

16. On the one hand, the most dynamic high technology businesses may perform a role as a motor.

17. On the other hand, there are many firms operating in niches relatively untouched by technological change.

18. In order to avoid these negative effects, it is necessary to develop a national strategy of the reform.

19. The legal framework is extremely important in order to secure a smooth operation of private items.

20. In order to decide upon the method of grouping or division of work the main objectives of the business must be considered.

21. Despite of many barriers small enterprises must face, their present development and role in the economy can be positively evaluated.

22. Due to the high inflation and emergence of unemployment the real money income has remained low.

Date: 2016-04-22; view: 842