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Wait, You Need It When?!?

The Essential Guide to Time Management, Productivity, and Powerful Habits That Get Things Done
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Reclaim your time! Set priorities, stop procrastinating, and get your stuff done! While some believe that you're either born a great time manager or you're not, that's not really the case at all. Anyone can learn the powerful habits of being more effective and more productive—and... Read More
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Reclaim your time! Set priorities, stop procrastinating, and get your stuff done!

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Reclaim your time! Set priorities, stop procrastinating, and get your stuff done!

While some believe that you're either born a great time manager or you're not, that's not really the case at all. Anyone can learn the powerful habits of being more effective and more productive—and getting things done.

Wait, You Need It When?!? is the essential guide to learning how to better manage your time, become more productive, and create the daily habits that will make this personal transformation stick in the long run—not just for a day or two. In today's work environment, we need these habits more than ever before. Regardless of where we work—an office or traditional business establishment, at home, or at the local Starbucks—we can all benefit from applying better time management habits. Learning the abilities of self-direction and how to stay on task are long-term building blocks for any successful career.

  • Set yourself up for success
  • Optimise your workplace
  • Limit outside disruptions
  • Know the eleven habits that get things done

Based on proven approaches, the latest research, and the advice of workplace experts, Wait, You Need It When?!? will provide you with detailed and unambiguous advice on how to hone your time management skills and learn new ones.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781632652157

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 March 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Career Press

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Peter Economy is the bestselling author of Managing for Dummies (more than 600,000 copies sold globally since publication), Wait, I'm Working with Who?!?, and Wait, I'm the Boss?!?. Known as The Leadership Guy at Inc.com, where his columns average more than 500,000 page views a month, he routinely works with C-level executives, tech gurus, and business consultants worldwide, and he served as associate editor of Leader to Leader magazine, a publication of the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum, for more than a decade.

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