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LCC #

In the Library of Congress Classification, books related to Time Management or finding a Work/Life Balance can typically be found under the "H" classification for Social Sciences or the "T" classification for Technology.

  • HD - Industries. Land use. Labor 
    • HD56-57.5: Industrial productivity
    • HD58.7-58.95: Organizational behavior, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture
    • HD4801-8943: Labor. Work. Working class
  • HF - Commerce
    • HF5549-5549.5: Personnel management. Employment management.
  • T - Technology
    • T59.7-59.77: Human engineering in industry, Man-machine systems

Books on Time Management or Work-Life Balance

Slow productivity [electronic resource] : The lost art of accomplishment without burnout

Our current definition of "productivity" is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. We're overwhelmed by all we have to do and on the edge of burnout, left to decide between giving into soul-sapping hustle culture or rejecting ambition altogether. But are these really our only choices? From the aggressive rethinking of workload management, to introducing seasonal variation, to shifting your performance toward long-term quality, Slow Productivity provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment.

Organizing Your Day

For more than twenty years, Sandra Felton's books have helped countless readers organize their homes, rooms, offices, and paperwork. She now joins forces with professional organizer Marsha Sims and applies some of the same principles to help readers build a successful system for organizing their daily schedules and routines. Their unique approach with helpful anecdotal stories offers a variety of easy-to-implement, effective ideas. From goal setting, project management, and to-do lists to daily scheduling, creating new habits, and curing chronic lateness, the topics covered in Organizing Your Day will hit home with busy readers.

Time Management

Effective time management is one of today's most overlooked--yet essential --keys to career growth in business and management. Time Management provides hands-on techniques and tools for making every minute count as it dispels myths that can actually cost instead of save valuable time. It helps managers match the right time-saving tool to each situation, reveals secrets for anticipating instead of reacting, and explains how any manager can eliminate procrastination.

Effective Time Management in a Day for Dummies

Get the know-how to manage your time effectively--in a day! Effective Time Management In a Day For Dummies helps you to effectively set up a time management system to regain control of your days and responsibilities. It showcases the importance of maximizing effectiveness and reveals why (and how) time management is the key to organizing hectic lives. Focusing efforts and blocking your time Prioritizing for daily success Setting up a work environment that is conducive to being productive Minimizing distractions.

B is for balance [electronic resource] : 12 steps toward a more balanced life at home and at work

Are you the professional perfectionist? The mega multitasker? The be-all-things-to-all-people-all-the-time personality? If you're a nurse, chances are you've struggled to find or recover professional and personal balance-or know someone who has. Fully revised, expanded, and updated, the second edition of B Is for Balance offers even more practical tips, tools, and tricks for rebalancing

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