Category Archives: Research

Leave the Office on a Natural High

Leaving the office each day feeling as if you got a lot done has something to do with how you schedule the day.  Lying in bed each morning to make a mental calendar is one thing.  Putting it on a … Continue reading

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Building on Randy Pausch’s Time Management

The Randy Pausch video on time management is famous for several things.  One is his emphasis on committing to big goals, broken down into everyday steps. I thought I’d update his ideas with some of the newest research… Click here … Continue reading

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New Ways to Use Your Schedule

For a long time, there’s been a school of thought that says that you should only use your schedule for appointments.  The latest research shows that there are better ways available to us to be more productive, especially when we … Continue reading

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How to Use Dezhi Wu’s Time Management Research to

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 … Continue reading

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Dezhi Wu’s Game-Changing Research on Scheduling #3

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 … Continue reading

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Update on Dezhi Wu’s Research #2

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 … Continue reading

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Possibly the Best Time Management Research Completed. Period.

I am reading through the first chapters of a book written by Professor Dezhi Wu entitled Temporal Structures in Individual Time management: Practices to Enhance Calendar Tool Design. It’s a seminal work.  But I am a bit biased as I … Continue reading

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Productivity that Will Make Your Blood Boil

www.truth-out.org has put together some statistics that show that: productivity has increased dramatically, but household income has stagnated the hours worked on the job have remained steady over the years, but more time away from the office is now spent … Continue reading

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Living a Life Filled with Experiments to Improve Your Productivity

In case you haven’t noticed, or are new to this website, I am not a fan of the quick fix.  When it comes to time management, I simply don’t believe in them. Genuine upgrades take work, whether you are a … Continue reading

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1999 Email Research is Still Timely and Relevant

As I dug through academic papers on the topic of time management over the past few days, I came across a journal article that was simply amazing in its prescience.  It was written by Steve Whittaker and Candace Sidner of … Continue reading

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