Time Management for System Administrators: Stop Working Late and Start Working Smart

Good book but extremely out-dated. Needs a massive revamp with newer technology offerings. Palms PDAs and old technology are referenced often which simply do not apply in todays IT organizations.

I tell my colleagues this book is a life-saver. Tom's time management tips and techniques (the Cycle System) have really increased my productivity and effectiveness. I like this book so much, I've started teaching a class based on it, to spread this knowledge. Here is what some of my students have said:

"Drilling down from 'goals' to 'What are you doing Monday?' was an eye opener in terms of showing me how this sort of thing fits together. The goals exercise was the best part of it. It made the rest of the concepts real. I've even suggested to my boss that the sysadmin group do something similar at one of our staff meetings." L.G.

"I think that 'The Cycle' system is a pretty comprehensive approach to time planning, but very simple concept to implement. And it looks very practical in its approach. I definitely plan to follow up on it and give it a try right away. One thing it really encourages you to be very strategic in your thinking, which also helps with achieving long term goals. Putting some time to think about the important long term goals both personal and professional was a real eye opening for me, since I pretty much discovered that I am spending a lot of time and effort on things that are not important from the long term goal perspective.

I liked also the attitude towards the vacation time -- you know as a sysadmin you always feel guilty for taking too much vacation time in one lump, now I will feel guilty for not taking vacation time instead :-) It also helps to encourage your colleagues to take on more ownership and responsibilities over company's infrastructure while you are on vacation." O.B.

This book is 26$ for the kindle edition when you are in Canada. (detected by the ip address)

Beleive it or not, the same book is 11.99$ for people from United States.

Oreilly you start to be ridiculous in the way you handle your countries policies.

This book changed the way I approach my job as a sysadmin, and my boss took notice and purchased a copy for the office to pass around and read. It helped me take control of the factors in my job that were causing me to lose focus and avoid major projects, some (like automation, also discussed in the book) that would make my job easier if I could just sit down and put four straight hours into them. It has great tips for end-user and boss relationship building, and while the terminology is a bit outdated, the job itself never changes.

This book is great! It definitely helps out in 2019. I originally owned it on safari books but purchased it for my kindle.

A fine, readable, humane book and one I recommend to the overwhelmed IT drone. There is actual good time management advice contained herein. However, let's be honest - 2005 is practically eons ago in IT time and this volume would benefit greatly from some revisions. The first half of the book, I feel, is the most useful.

Don't let that stop you from reading or skimming it though, as it is short and cheap. If you save even 15 minutes a day from practices incorporated into your routine, it adds up to almost 4 days per year of time regained from the clutches of your pestilent userbase and clueless management. Thanks Tom!

I try to re-read this book every 2 years.

Dated. I would highly recommend to a younger me.

Good book. Has some very good points. Some things were said so many times it became annoying to read. Some of the concepts are outdated.

It would be great if they write an updated version. This book is alright. I'm writing this so that it stops asking me to review this book.