Generally, their advice can be summed up as follows: Keep an ever-more-detailed log of how you spend your time, in order to identify deficiencies and measure the increase in your productivity. (This part often involves filling in a time spreadsheet, with increments as short as fifteen minutes.) Identify your most productive time in the day and arrange your work accordingly. Militantly eliminate distractions, anything not having to do with your work. (What used to be stealing time from your boss is now stealing time from yourself-as-boss.)
