Successful Time Management

By Patrick Forsyth
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If you are busy then you are normal. The modern workplace is unrelenting and deadlines, pressure (and, if you let it get to you, stress too) and a daily avalanche of e-mails are the order of the day. Dealing with this must be part of everyone’s stock in trade …

You are doubtless judged by what you do, by the results you achieve. To survive and prosper you have to be productive, efficient and effective. Time management is about working actively to create efficiency and effectiveness in a way that makes achieving your targeted results more likely. Success does not just happen. You make it happen. So too with your work pattern, you create it and do so for good or ill. Here we examine an essential foundation to success.

Good, effective time management is a core skill, a career skill that we all need both to make us able to perform in a current job and to enhance our career prospects. It is a real differentiating factor, one where getting to grips with it can see you consistently achieving what you want in both job and career in a way that gives you an edge on other people, perhaps of equal ability, but who lack this aspect of self-organisation and discipline …

(Excerpt from the Preface)

感動人生的100個心靈故事 = 100 Stories Affected for My Life

陳凱文 編著
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“一個小女孩趴在窗台上，看著窗外的人正埋葬她心愛的小狗，不禁淚流滿面，悲慟不已。她的外祖父見狀，連忙引她到另一個視窗，讓她欣賞他精心栽培的玫瑰花園。果然小女孩的心情頓時明朗。老人托起外孫女的下巴說：「孩子，你開錯了窗戶。」”
雖然僅是一小篇小故事，它影響著人類情感的發舒，更敬畏於書內故事真情流露的內涵，因為人性中最美好的東西不在於外表，而是在我們人與人的內心中。當你用你的愛心去打動別人，幫助別人的時候。同時，你也在享受著奉獻的快樂。
本書是用最可貴的愛、真情與感悟作拋磚引玉，用作者的筆記錄生命中不能錯過的感動情事，讓最感動、最內咎、最難以忘懷的點滴情結編輯出版，一本給真正屬於自己和廣大讀者心神領會的書。
書中所寫的文字，都是歷年來筆者所接觸最感人的故事點滴，遂而產生俯首執筆的念頭，它是對自然、對人生、對社會、對世界、回報內心的真知與感悟，冀望能感動你內心的思維，觸動你深邃的一顆心，並將它傳播給有智慧的讀者，那即是出版本書的最大初衷。
(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Getting Things Done : The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

By David Allen
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WELCOME TO A gold mine of insights into strategies for how to have more energy, be more relaxed, and get a lot more accomplished with much less effort. If you’re like me, you like getting things done and doing them well, and yet you also want to savor life in ways that seem increasingly elusive if not downright impossible if you’re working too hard. This doesn’t have to be an either-or proposition. It is possible to be effectively doing, while you are delightfully being, in your ordinary workaday world.

I think efficiency is a good thing. Maybe what you’re doing is important, interesting, or useful; or maybe it isn’t but it has to be done anyway. In the first case you want to get as much return as you can on your investment of time and energy. In the second, you want to get on to other things as fast as you can, without any nagging loose ends.

And whatever you’re doing, you’d probably like to be more relaxed, confident …

Teaching you how to be maximally efficient and relaxed, whenever you need or want to be, was my main purpose in writing this book.

(Excerpt from “Welcome to Getting Things Done” of the book)

實用彈性思考法

謝水南 著
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作者以其豐富的學識，廣泛而獨特的服務經歷，加上多年來在中小學主任校長儲訓班、大學、文官培訓所和各種訓練機構講授「創意思考與問題解決」課程累積的實務經驗，寫成本書「實用彈性思考法」，也就是通稱的「創意思考法」。
本書涵蓋「彈性思考法」的理論與實務，而且實務部分多於理論部分。蒐羅內容廣泛：從文字到圖形；從語文到數理；從本國語文到外國語文；從人文到科技；從日常生活到學術研究等等。
本書是難得一見的整合性創意思考讀物，通俗平易卻又趣味盎然。閱讀本書有如閱讀數本創意思考的書籍。
(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Learning Maps and Memory Skills

By Ingemar Svantesson
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Are you tired of wading through pages of notes to find the information you want?
Do you need to improve your creative thinking?
Do you find it difficult to decipher the notes you have taken during a meeting?
Learning maps could be the answer to your problems. They are an immensely valuable note-taking technique that can improve your memory, save you time and help with creative thinking. They are useful in all sorts of situations, such as:
• planning and problem solving;
• summarising notes;
• remembering facts and figures;
• brainstorming;
• remembering key points from a meeting.
(Excerpt from the back cover)

快速閱讀

托尼・巴贊 (Tony Buzan) 著
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本書有六個主要的目的：
1. 全面提高閱讀速度;
2. 保持並改善理解能力;
3. 增加眼睛和大腦的理解功能，這樣，就可以在看書和研究時，或者是在個人事務和工作中，能更有效地利用這些功能;
4. 使詞彙量和普通知識都得以改善;
5. 節約時間;
6. 為你增加信心。

為便於學習和閱讀，《快速閱讀》一書分成五個部份：
第一部份---了解閱讀速度
第二部份---令人吃驚的眼睛
第三部份---超人的注意力與理解能力
第四部份---開發高級快速閱讀技巧
第五部份---成為專家級的閱讀者—眼睛/大腦系統的高級應用

(摘錄自書中 “《快速閱讀》使用指南”)