The Time Trap
A landmark time management book published in 1972 by Alec MacKenzie, one of the first modern time management books that inspired early time management research and helped popularize structured approaches to personal time organization.
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Overview
Published in 1972, The Time Trap by Alec MacKenzie is recognized as one of the first modern time management books. Along with Alan Lakein's How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life (1973), it inspired early modern time management research.
Historical Significance
- Published in the early 1970s during the first wave of modern time management literature
- Cited as instrumental in inspiring early empirical time management research (late 1970s-1980s)
- Helped establish time management as both a popular topic and an area of academic interest
- Part of a movement that preceded the surge in time-related academic papers in organizational behavior that began around the end of the 1980s
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