As I shared in the prior series of four posts on this topic, Dezhi Wu’s book “Temporal Structures in Individual Time Management: Practices to Enhance Calendar Tool Design” is a breakthrough piece of research. It’s the dawn of a new age, I hope — time management researchers are actually tackling the problems that ordinary people …
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A major focus of Wu’s research as outlined in Temporal Structures in Individual Time Management: practices to enhance calendar tool design, is on the paucity of tools that exist to manage our schedules. She decries the fact that electronic calendars do little more than mimic paper calendars, and offer little functionality in important areas. She …
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As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have been immersing myself in Dezhi Wu’s book “Temporal Structure in Individual Time Management: practices to enhance calendar design.” It’s a book based on the research she did over 5+ years and her empirical findings have put to bed some of the questions I have been exploring …
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I’m still working through the first chapter of Dezhi Wu’s book “Temporal Structures in Individual Time Management,” but it’s already leading to some interesting places. She used four criteria to characterize individual time management quality: planning meeting deadlines sensing a lack of time control engaging in procrastinating She found great differences between good and bad …
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There are a handful of working professionals who have chosen to use their calendars as their hub for all their planning activity. The challenges they run into are only rarely mentioned in time management and productivity books, programs and websites: the overwhelming conventional wisdom states that it’s impossible to use a schedule in this way, …
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In our research at 2Time Labs we have noticed a natural progression in time management skills among working professionals. Here’s our hypothesis in a nutshell, but please understand that it’s always being updated and changed depending on our latest findings. There’s a natural increase in the number of time demands that a working professional must …
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It’s an assumption made by many time management books and programs – the behaviors described not only work, but they work for everyone. They might make a passing reference to the need to do a little customization here and there but it’s hardly a central thesis of the book. The author’s message remains: “Just follow …
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New research emerges showing that keeping a specific schedule of what you plan to do each day in the future is better than other options. The Problem: For some time here at 2Time Labs I have highlighted the general problem of time management books that neither cite relevant research nor update their recommendations based on …
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I have noticed a wide and growing number of apps on the new iPhone, Android and laptop that attempt to improve a user’s personal productivity. They all seem to focus on the same thing: how to make better lists. It’s a bit disheartening, because our research here at 2Time Labs shows that lists work fine …
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I did a little digging over the weekend and found some great research in time management that we’ll be highlighting here at 2Time Labs. What’s interesting is that, along with Dezhi Wu’s work, the articles prove that all the interesting work in this discipline is being done by women: Macan, Francis-Smythe, Gibson and Claessens. Here …
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