Why time management is ruining our lives

All of our efforts to be more productive backfire – and only make us feel even busier and more stressed ... if the stream of incoming emails is endless, Inbox Zero can never bring liberation: you’re still Sisyphus, rolling his boulder up that hill for all eternity – you’re just rolling it slightly faster...
if you are among the growing ranks of the self-employed... increased personal efficiency may be essential to your survival... “personal productivity” puts the burden of reconciling these demands squarely on our shoulders as individuals...
If all this increased efficiency brings none of the benefits it was supposed to bring, what should we be doing instead?... “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”... good ideas do not emerge more rapidly when people feel under the gun – if anything, the good ideas dry up...
corporate cost-cutting exercise that focuses on maximising employees’ efficiency... the less available they will be to respond... to critical new demands... “An organisation that can accelerate but not change direction is like a car that can speed up but not steer,...
Personal productivity presents itself as an antidote to busyness ... yet another form of busyness... to keep us sufficiently distracted that we don’t have to ask ourselves potentially terrifying questions about how we are spending our days... “Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.”