Silver Clipboard: Time Management Tips and Personal Productivity Tools

Has your to-do list grown too large and cumbersome? Do you dread looking at all the work it represents? Then take a tip for culling your tasks from the Roman army: decimate your to-do list.
In Roman times, decimation was a tool to keep the military obedient. If a legion became mutinous, [...]

The fastest way to free time in your schedule is also the hardest: learning to say ‘no’. It’s a tricky endeavor, doubly so when the person asking something of you is in a position of authority. Here are some suggestions to make the process less painful:

Repeat the ‘No’. People expect a conversation to [...]

Office deadlines: miss them and, you’re in trouble. Beat them and you get extra work. What’s an employee to do?
Here’s one strategy: when given work on a deadline, do it as soon as possible but don’t hand it in until the deadline. This way you are free of the stress of the [...]