Time Management for System Administrators
Time Management for System Administrators
ISBN: 0596007833
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 117
Pages: 117
Authors: Thomas A. Limoncelli
- 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
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- C
- D
- E
- F
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Time Management for System Administrators
ISBN: 0596007833
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 117
Pages: 117
Authors: Thomas A. Limoncelli