Ivy Lee

Thinkers1877 to 1934Publicist

Works

  • The Time Trap, Alec Mackenzie's time-management book, one of the retellings of the advice Lee is said to have given Charles M. Schwab, 1972

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Known for

A founder of modern public relations, remembered in productivity writing for the Ivy Lee method: list the six most important tasks for tomorrow, in order, and work them one at a time.

Caveat: The method is known only from a story, retold in time-management books, that Charles M. Schwab paid Lee for the advice at Bethlehem Steel; Lee left no written account of it and the date usually given is not documented.

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