看结果而不是看时间：看准了再工作

Punching a time clock makes no sense for professionals. Their contribution is not the time they spend on their work but the value they create through their knowledge.
对于职场人来说，掐表计时是毫无意义的。他们的贡献不在于花在工作上的时间，而在他们的知识所创造的的价值。

1. Know your priorities
1. 了解什么对自己最重要

Many things that you do at work are probably not the best use of your time. For instance, many professionals often spend much more time than necessary perfecting relatively low-priority tasks.
你做的工作中大部分都不是最能有效利用时间的。比如说，很多职员都把时间花在完善那些并不那么要紧的任务上。

Understand what really matters to you, your boss, and your organization, and then be willing to be less than perfect on your lower-priority tasks.
了解哪些是对你个人，老板，和所在的组织来说最重要的事情，然后想办法花更少时间在那些不是那么重要的事情上。

2. Avoid meetings like the plague!
2. 像躲避瘟疫一样避开会议！

In the same spirit, most professionals would agree that many business meetings are incredibly wasteful — they typically last too long, they usually fail to produce concrete results, and they are sometimes completely unnecessary. Yet, just as a misplaced focus on hours allows perfectionism to persist in the workplace, it also allows employees to keep scheduling redundant, poorly run meetings.
同理，大多数职场人觉得很多会议都是在浪费时间——它们往往持续时间很长，最后却没能得到什么实际的结果，大多数情况下这些会议根本没有召开的必要。不恰当地关注花了多少时间，会造成完美主义者坚持要在工作中达到一定的工时数，也会造成重复的计划和不必要的会议安排。

3. Don’t forget to recharge
3. 不要忘了给自己充电

On the other side of the coin, an organization that places too much emphasis on time spent at the office probably neglects the importance of time spent away from the office. In order to be productive at work, professionals need to be able to recharge, physically and mentally.
从另一方面讲，如果过多的强调员工花在办公室的时间，就会忽视了工作之外时间的重要性。实际上，想要工作高效，职场人士需要经常地给自己充电，这包括精神上和身体上。