168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think

by Laura Vanderkam

If you’re trying to build a career while raising a young family, you will have more energy for your children if you work 50 hours a week in a job you love than if you work 30 in a job you hate.

Productivity, like religion, is a concept prone to much interpretation.

You can have a great system for organizing e-mail, or scheduling daily conference calls on various projects, but I’m guessing at your retirement dinner, people won’t talk about your pristine in-box or packed schedule.