The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Effective Time Management, 2nd ed. Christopher S. Frings. Washington, DC: AACC Press, 2004, 112 pp., $25.00 ($20.00 AACC members), softcover. ISBN 1-5942-003-0.

This book provides a logical, commonsense roadmap for time management. It is effective in that it is short, can be read in a couple of hours, is easy to read, and is easy to use as a reference. Frings makes his point easy to understand and provides sample documents to follow so that the book becomes a workbook. The basis of the book is that “all time has value”, and it provides a straightforward approach to maximizing that value. The critical central step in the process is to define your …