You may often have to read or review piles of documents where most of the information may not have any other value than to make the document thicker and sound like it has required a lot of hard work and sweating to produce.

Since your time is precious, why don't you ask MS Word to summarize it for you?

 Among some time saving techniques, typing faster is certainly one of the easiest skills to improve/acquire. For sure this can be done by practicing a lot, using ten fingers instead of 2 (I personally use four of them, while reserving the remaining one for other purposes such as smashing them with a hammer or slicing them like a Japanese chef with some carrots, just for the fun of it. Don't give a it try it really hurts).

If you want to considerably increase your typing skills in no time, there are a few softwares out there which will do the trick with few efforts. These tools aim at auto-completing or replacing abbreviations by their full equivalent.

You may have once been interested by improving your reading speed but the efforts required therefore have certainly discouraged you. Most of the speed-reading course are demanding and require you to train a lot before reaching tangible results. The method I propose you relies on a fairly basic statistical approach that claims you can drop most of the words in a text without loss of meaning. Such an approach should allow you to quickly scan through your mails and to address the mails that really require your attention.

On the path to Hyper-efficiency there is knowledge, and there is no secret, you get knowledge through learning. So why not taking a look to the following site which claims to educate you if not to the level of an MBA, at least enough not to look stupid during worldly dinners. This site will provide you with a list of books which, at least for some, are part of a standard MBA cursus. To discover the site, click on the image below. This seems like a nice challenge to me.