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Time Management for System Administrators

ISBN: 0596007833
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2003
Pages: 117

Authors: Thomas A. Limoncelli

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• Time Management for System Administrators
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• About the Author
• Foreword
• Preface
• How to Read This Book
• Audience
• About This Book
• Assumptions This Book Makes
• Conventions Used in This Book
• Using Code Examples
• We d Like to Hear from You
• Safari Enabled
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Time Management Principles
• Section 1.1. What s So Difficult About Time Management?
• Section 1.2. The Principles of Time Management for SAs
• Section 1.3. It Won t Be Easy
• Section 1.4. Summary
• Chapter 2. Focus Versus Interruptions
• Section 2.1. The Focused Brain
• Section 2.2. An Environment to Encourage Focus
• Section 2.3. Interruptions
• Section 2.4. Directing Interruptions Away from You
• Section 2.5. You Can Say
• Section 2.6. Summary
• Chapter 3. Routines
• Section 3.1. Sample Routines
• Section 3.2. How to Develop Your Own Routines
• Section 3.3. Deleting Old Routines
• Section 3.4. Summary
• Chapter 4. The Cycle System
• Section 4.1. Don t Trust Your Brain
• Section 4.2. Why Other Systems Fail
• Section 4.3. Systems That Succeed
• Section 4.4. The Cycle
• Section 4.5. Summary
• Chapter 5. The Cycle System: To Do Lists and Schedules
• Section 5.1. A Sample Day
• Section 5.2. Other Tips
• Section 5.3. Setting Up a PAA for Use with The Cycle
• Section 5.4. Setting Up a PDA for Use with The Cycle
• Section 5.5. Summary
• Chapter 6. The Cycle System: Calendar Management
• Section 6.1. How to Use Your Calendar
• Section 6.2. One Calendar for Business and Social Life
• Section 6.3. Repeating Tasks
• Section 6.4. Know Your Personal Rhythms
• Section 6.5. Know Your Company s Rhythms
• Section 6.6. Summary
• Chapter 7. The Cycle System: Life Goals
• Section 7.1. The Secret Trick
• Section 7.2. Setting Goals
• Section 7.3. Planning Your Next Steps
• Section 7.4. Schedule the Steps
• Section 7.5. Revisit Your Goals Regularly
• Section 7.6. Summary
• Chapter 8. Prioritization
• Section 8.1. Prioritizing Your To Do Lists
• Section 8.2. Project Priorities
• Section 8.3. Requests from Your Boss
• Section 8.4. Summary
• Chapter 9. Stress Management
• Section 9.1. Overload and Conflicting Directions
• Section 9.2. Vacation Time
• Section 9.3. Yoga, Meditation, and Massage
• Section 9.4. Summary
• Chapter 10. Email Management
• Section 10.1. Managing Your Email
• Section 10.2. Jump Starting the Process
• Section 10.3. Summary
• Chapter 11. Eliminating Time Wasters
• Section 11.1. What Is a Time Waster?
• Section 11.2. Avoiding the Tempting Time Wasters
• Section 11.3. Common Time Wasters
• Section 11.4. Wasteful Meetings
• Section 11.5. Strategic Versus Tactical
• Section 11.6. Summary
• Chapter 12. Documentation
• Section 12.1. Document What Matters to You
• Section 12.2. Wiki Technology
• Section 12.3. Summary
• Chapter 13. Automation
• Section 13.1. What to Automate?
• Section 13.2. How to Automate
• Section 13.3. Simple Things Done Often
• Section 13.4. Hard Things Done Once
• Section 13.5. Letting Others Do Privileged Operations
• Section 13.6. Summary
• Epilogue
• What to Do with All Your
• Colophon
• Index
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• L
• M
• N
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• P
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• T
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• W
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