Product Description

What would you do with three extra weeks each year? Travel? Relax? Spend more time with family and friends? Studies suggest that the average businessperson squanders some 150 hours-more than three workweeks-every year looking for things in his or her cluttered office or cubicle. Taking the time to organize is making time to enjoy the things you really love. In this book, the author of The Well-Ordered Home develops her step-by-step and amazingly easy program for clearing the clutter and making sense of the mess.

Where other books on office organization offer the same advice readers have heard a thousand times, this book cuts straight to the real, deeper reasons people become disorganized-an inclination to procrastination, a yen for perfectionism, a habit of being easily distracted. Drawing on her experience as an organizer and practicing psychologist, the author offers simple strategies for overcoming these issues once and for all. Readers will learn to organize information, make the most of electronic media, and handle interrupting phone calls, coworkers,and e-mails with confidence and grace. Readers who practice these simple techniques will instantly enjoy greater peace of mind as well as saving time, money, and aggravation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #734985 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 123 pages

From the Publisher
In this sequel to the instantly popular The Well-Ordered Home, readers will find fifty simple office organization tips guaranteed to reduce stress, improve time management, and transform their workspaces into oases of order and serenity.

About the Author
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Ph.D., is a health psychologist and a research associate at the Family Research Laboratory, an affiliate research associate professor of psychology at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH, and a fellow of the APA. Her work frequently involves helping people cope with the stresses and strains of daily life.

Customer Reviews

Not worth the time
"The Well-Ordered Office" is about techniques that can be used to reduce stress in your office. Author Kathleen Kendall-Tackett gives 50 techniques to get things under control.

I'll be honest... I didn't like this book. The title suggested to me that this book would be about specific office organization techniques like filing and equipment. However the author only gives a brief overview and ends up offering no help whatsoever. A good example is the chapter on good programs for your PDA where she only offers categories of programs and no specific programs whatsoever. Sure.... list management software could be helpful but only if you have a good program! Which one is the best!?!?!

The book also contains several "filler" chapter that I have no idea why they are in this book. Chapters such as "Travel safely and in style" and "Balancing work with the rest of your life" are completely unrelated to the title. If I want travel advice, I will get a book on traveling. If I want advice on how to balance my life, I'll get a book that deals with that topic, not a book that spends 2 pages on such a broad topic.

In summary, don't waste you time or money on this book. It isn't worth it. While there are 1 or 2 pieces on advice in this book, I would recommend "Getting Things Done" by David Allen instead. 2 out of 5 stars.

A Fresh Look at Organizing Your Office.
I have attempted reading several books on how to organize my life or home in the hope that I would become more organized. In all honesty I have never finished any of the books due to them being too time consuming and boring. Not so with "The Well Ordered Office" it was very easy to read from beginning to end. I loved that each chapter although very informative was kept short and to the point.

Dr. Kendall -Tackett has managed to cover every issue of having a more efficient office. Many of the things that she has written about in this book are practical techniques that can be used in your home office. As a matter of fact this book motivated me to organize my home office as soon as I finished reading it.

I highly recommend "The Well Ordered Office" to anyone looking for a book that will be quick, entertaining and full of fresh new ideas about organizing your office.

Well-Ordered Office Covers All the Bases
Any book can give tips for organizing your life, but The Well-Ordered Office gives you more. Because the author is a psychologist, Dr. Kathleen Kendall-Tackett is also qualified to address the thoughts and feelings that work against our best intentions. In addition, she provides the tools for dealing with them so that we can get our life on track. On a more practical level, this short book covers an amazing range of specifics including: address books vs. PDAs, managing people and time, creating a portable office for traveling, getting rid of clutter, even office feng shui. Despite its small size, this book is incredibly comprehensive. Three cheers for The Well-Ordered Office!