The 20 Biggest Time Wasters

Posted by Ian McKenzie
Written on July 23, 2008

Posted in Productivity

In his classic book, The Time Trap, Alec Mackenzie identifies 20 behaviours that lead to wasted time. Over the past couple of years, I’ve written post covering 12 of the 20 behaviours (linked below). Over the next few weeks, I’ll be writing posts covering the remaining 8 behaviours.

  1. Management by Crisis
  2. Telephone Interruptions
  3. Inadequate Planning
  4. Attempting Too Much
  5. Drop-in Visitors
  6. Ineffective Delegation
  7. Personal Disorganization
  8. Lack of Self Discipline
  9. Inability to Say “No”
  10. Procrastination
  11. Meetings and more meetings
  12. Paper Work
  13. Unfinished Tasks
  14. Inadequate Staff
  15. Socializing
  16. Confused Authority
  17. Poor Communication
  18. Inadequate Controls
  19. Incomplete Information
  20. Travel

Related Posts:

  • Outline of time management principles
  • Interviews With Productivity Experts at Productivity501
  • 8 common time wasters

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    Comments

    I love this series - brilliant!

    Comment by Matthew Cornell on December 31, 2006 @ 1:17 pm

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