高级商务英语文本
1. Management themes
Read the following text and then discuss the questions below.
Time management has become one of the key issues of the second half of the twentieth century. Managers, grappling with work pressures and deadlines, have come to recognise that time is a precious commodity to be \'saved\', \'gained\', and not \'wasted\' or \'lost\'. But if time is a commodity, how then can we best describe, measure and manage it?