How to Avoid Your Boss is a tongue-in-cheek guide to managing your time and workload in order to minimize contact with your boss. While the title may seem to suggest otherwise, the book is not about shirking your responsibilities or avoiding work. Rather, it is about working smarter, not harder, and finding ways to be more productive without sacrificing your personal time.
The book’s author, Robert C. Pozen, is a senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School and a former CEO of Fidelity Investments. He has written extensively about time management and workplace productivity. In How to Avoid Your Boss, Pozen argues that the key to success is to be proactive and to take control of your own time. He offers a number of tips and strategies for doing this, including:
