Rating: 
Summary: Take what works & leave the rest
Review: Reading this book is rather like being beaten over the head with a club - for example, he asks (over and over) - Do you have your planing tool at your fingertips 24 hours a day? If not - you are NOT ORGANIZED!!!! Three lashes!He writes for a different audience than I, one that has In and Out boxes on their desk (I've never seen In or Out boxes on anyone's desk, ever), that needs an introduction to the net and that makes phone calls all day (executives on the East coast maybe). None the less, if you can handle being beated up by the author, he does have some good suggestions. He suggests planning not only what to do, but when to do it, which is probably the biggest win I'll get from the book. Every day I know my list is too long, but I start at the top & work down. I think that if I figure out when things will happen (even if the time spans are only guesses, since I don't know how long many things will take) it will help me to understand better what I can really accomplish & what I can't and thus, to focus my energy on what I can do. So I'd say that if you want to make things happen, it's worth reading for the hints that work for you.
Rating: 
Summary: Good tips
Review: There are good tips in this book to help you be more efficient. It was painted with a bit to broad of a brush, and I would have liked McCormack to have been a little more detailed in spots. And one thing he advises is pushing yourself while watching the clock...and some of this book has a hasty feel of someone pushing (for instance, he refers to Clint Eastwood's movie "Magnum Force" as a WESTERN! Most movie goers know that "Magnum Force" was a modern-day cop movie. That's one example of sloppiness that shouldn't have gone past McCormack's nor his editors' eyes.) But McCormack has built up his business from scratch, to a $700 million business (privately held, too, and not an overvalued public company, like so many internet companies). So many advice books are written by people who aren't accomplished themselves, and so you can be reassured that THIS advice will likely work! So it is good advice, and I'm going to study the book much in the future.
Rating: 
Summary: illuminating
Review: This has helpful stuff in it. I even went out and bought a stopwatch to time certain tasks to speed myself up, as this book recommends. But the time obsession is kind of ridiculous at times, to the point where you almost expect Mr. McCormack to say, "If you could shave making love to your wife from 15 minutes down to 15 seconds, you'd save so much time." To get philosophical, Abraham Maslow wrote the seminal book TOWARD A PSYCHOLOGY OF BEING where he writes of the "self-actualized" personality, that he considers the most highly evolved personality type, but who are less than 1% of the population. One common trait amongst these extremely happy people is they often experience "peak experiences" where they feel immense joy and these experiences "trascend time." These people lose track of time during these experiences!!!! Now, it seems an obsession with time such as McCormack preaches would completely interfere with one's ever having such joyful experiences. I suppose it's like a lousy movie, where you are always looking at your watch, versus a great movie, where you forget about everything but the movie. So, I suppose to be successful and efficient, you have to say good-bye to happiness in a big way. But it's success that is supposed to make you happy, right? A major contradiction!!
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