Book Review: Time Traps By Todd Duncan

Send us Fan MailSeventy-five percent of your workday is wasted. Not thirty percent. Not even half. You're clocking in for eight hours and selling for ninety minutes. If your company's time sheet told the truth, most of your sales team would be classified as a charitable donation.In this Stagnation Assassin Book Review, I break down "Time Traps" by Todd Duncan — a New York Times bestseller from a sales trainer who's coached over 250,000 professionals worldwide. The core thesis: stop trying to manage time — you can't lasso the wind. Instead, manage your tasks. Duncan identifies eight traps eating your day alive, from the Yes Trap to the Control Trap to the Quota Trap.What he gets right: the fundamental premise that time management is a myth and task management is the real game is operational truth. The Yes Trap chapter alone is worth the cover price — every time you say yes to something unnecessary, you're saying no to something that moves the needle. The Control Trap nails it too — refusing to delegate isn't protecting quality, it's protecting your ego. And the daily framework of categorizing every task into productive, necessary, and unnecessary is clean and actionable.Then the murder board. The book is built primarily for individual salespeople in real estate and mortgage — if you're running a billion-dollar P&L, the frameworks feel like bringing a slingshot to a siege. The Technology Trap chapter is painfully dated. And the biggest problem: it's all defense, no offense. Duncan teaches you to stop bleeding. He doesn't teach you to draw blood. A tourniquet is great. But a tourniquet without a battle plan just means you'll die slower.Verdict: 3 out of 5 Kills. Solid but safe. If you're a salesperson who can't figure out why you're busy but broke, read it. If you're an executive looking for enterprise-scale transformation, you need heavier artillery.📕 Get "The Unfair Advantage: Weaponizing the Hypomanic Toolbox" at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FV6QMWBX🌐 StagnationAssassins.com 🌐 ToddHagopian.com