Product Description

Use this complete time/space management system to operate your home office efficiently and productively. Don't waste precious time searching for lost files and misplaced paperwork. Stay focused and avoid distractions while balancing your work and family life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1374778 in Books
• Published on: 2002-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 296 pages

From Library Journal
Aimed at a rapidly growing segment of the workforce that chooses to work out of the home, this book provides valuable guidance. Topics range from choosing and setting up the work space to productive and efficient paper and time management and personal organizational skills. Kanarek, the founder of a firm that helps businesses increase office productivity, does a good job of explaining how and why to follow her suggestions. Many illustrations of layouts, forms, and products contribute to the clear presentation. Unfortunately, much of this material is not new, since there have been several books and magazine articles written on these same topics. However, this book serves as a complete and up-to-date guide for those who are setting up home offices or who want to make improvements for more efficiency. Recommended for general collections.
- Grace Klinefelter, Ft. Lauderdale Coll., Fla.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Publisher
In this newly revised and expanded second edition (nearly 200,000 copies of the first edition have been sold), nationally recognized home office organizing expert Lisa Kanarek shares the strategies she has used to help thousands of clients around the country create organized, efficient and productive home offices.

From the Author
This book is designed to help anyone who wants to convert their home office from chaos to order. I realize that everyone has different working styles, so I've provided various organizing methods to meet everyone's needs.

Customer Reviews

Options for getting organized
Most organizing books give you only one way to do something but not this book. It gave me options for organizing my papers, home office, my day and other parts of my life. I found out that I don't have to file all of my papers in cabinets (Kanarek offered several options), I can toss my useless planning system and use one of the many described in her book and I learned new ways to make technology shave time off each day. This book is exactly what I needed!

Inspired me to take charge of my office
Good book. Of course it has stuff we all know about - 'a place for everything, and everything in it's place', but how many of us actually practise what we know? When i finished this book, the organization demon took over and I finished organizing my office in one sitting. I liked the idea of having everything you need in a circle around you and questioning whether you really need something, else tossing it out - essential for a pack-rat like me.

Basic manual to get you started
For those who have made the switch to working at home this book is directed to organizing your home office so it actually functions as a business. "Organizing Your Home Business" addresses a lot of the little things that may make or break your business if you don't do them right. At a minimum they help to make the business run more as a business and less as a hobby. First she addresses the creation of a useful workspace including what you should consider before deciding where to work and how to organize it for efficiency.

One of the problems that most people don't think much about is the problem of office supplies. How much do you purchase? Where do you store them until needed? What supplies need a monitoring system so you know when you are running low and which ones don't need to be watched as closely? One of the biggest problems that I have seen in this area is printer ink. There's nothing like having to stop what you are doing, run out to a store, and get another printer cartridge so you can finish getting something out today. If you let your supplies determine your schedule you will find yourself frantically trying to get everything done.

The rest of the book deals primarily with organizing paperwork, creating a daily planner, home filing systems, how to handle incoming information so it is addressed efficiently, organizing receipts, time management, and even ways to turn your car into a home office if that is what you need. If you have minimal experience with office management then "Organizing Your Home Business" is a good place to start gaining an understanding of the details of organizing a home business.