Product Description

In this new edition, you'll find updated Web site links, advice on how to work efficiently in virtual offices and off-site locations, and expanded information on computer-safety precautions, e-mail etiquette and electronic timesavers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #420711 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-01
• Released on: 2005-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Review
"Barbara spent a morning in my store helping me to organize my office. I like going into my office now. Thanks to Barbara Hemphill, I'm in charge and the paper tiger is in the cage (well actually it's in its file). -- Elaine Petrocelli President, Book Passage, Corte Madera, California

"Entrepreneurs everywhere will find Taming the Paper Tiger at Work an incredibly effective tool for dealing with all the 'stuff' and 'messes' a business creates, freeing them up to focus on achieving their goals." -- Dan Sullivan The Strategic Coach

"Once again Barbara Hemphill demonstrates why she is a leading authority in the organizing industry, a field she pioneered and continues to define. Taming the Paper Tiger at Work is the office organizing handbook for the new millennium." -- Gloria K. Ritter President, National Association of Professional Organizers

"Taming the Paper Tiger at Work is must reading for anyone who agonizes over what to keep, where to keep it and how to find it. It provides practical strategies on organizing any office to reduce stress and become more productive." -- Daniel Burrus Author, Technotrends

"This book is a road map to developing your own personal style of organization. Barbara Hemphill explodes the myth of the paperless office. We now have the burden of too much information. She tells us how to manage and reduce that burden." -- Chuck Cochran Director, Administration of Finance, National Governor's Association

What people are saying about Taming the Paper Tiger at Work "A valuable tool for anyone who works in an office, whether a corner suite or a corner of the kitchen. Clear, practical and in touch with today's work environment" -- Thomas C. Nelson, PhD. Director, Field Services Division, AARP

From the Publisher
Most people have an area they'd like to get "more organized." At work, it could be a desk buried in phone messages, memos and work-in-progress, overstuffed file cabinets or indecipherable computer files. At home, maybe it's a dining room table laden with bills and receipts, a pile of articles waiting to be read or photographs that need labeling. No matter what the situation, Barbara Hemphill has the practical solution to help control these "Paper Tigers."

From the Back Cover
Spend just two hours with this book - and save at least an hour a day! Are your files crammed with papers you don't use? Is your in-box overflowing? Do you have trouble finding computer documents when you need them? If so, the paper tiger's got you in its grip.

In spite of the promise of the paperless office, computers, e-mail, faxes and the Internet probably mean that you have to contend with more paper than ever. But setting up an efficient system to organize all that information is easier than you might think.

Now Barbara Hemphill, America's foremost expert in managing paper, offers help. In Taming the Paper Tiger at Work, Hemphill presents simple suggestions that will save you time and increase your efficiency, whether you're an individual employee, a small business owner or a high-level executive. Drawing on her 20 years of experience ranging from entrepreneurs with home offices to major corporations (including 3M, Eastman Kodak and Staples), she shows you how to decide what to toss, what to keep and - most important - how to find it when you need it, so you can get the results you want!

Taming the Paper Tiger at Work shows you how to: *find anything in your office in five seconds or les *apply the "F-A-T" system to organize your desk and computer *practice the "Art of Wastebasketry" to prevent clutter *replace "to read" piles with "Just-in-time Reading" *design a system to integrate individual offices with the whole company

Customer Reviews

I would have given it 5, but I misplaced a star.
Some are blessed with amazing organizational abiities.

Some of us are organizationally impaired ... or go through spurts of organization followed by piles of paper and inefficiency.

Hemphill's "Paper Tiger" takes you through the steps of organizing information from the philosophical ("Clutter is postponed decisions") to the practical (setting up filing systems, organizing computer files) to the special circumstances (attending conventions, sharing offices, working on the road or home).

She offers concrete, easy to remember tips for getting started (think F*A*T for each piece of paper), and then provides info on more complex tasks. You can pick up this book, turn to the sections that apply to you, or read it all the way through. Regardless of how you use the book, or the level of your organizational skills, you'll gain valuable tips for getting better organized.

Barbara Hemphill helped tame my tiger!
I was not near as bad as some of the cases Barbara describes in her books, but I was pretty pathetic! I was over a year behind reconciling my checkbook, paid bills late and my finances were in a mess, because my home papers were in such disarray! I felt so out of control, I didn't know where to start. I finally spent a weekend going through 7 boxes of papers I'd moved around for years, set up files, etc. Then I found Taming the Paper Tiger. Barbara covered things from setting up a workable space to how to organize action and storage files. I now have a terrific credit rating, run the family budget, have NO stacks of unidentifiable papers, mail greeting cards timely, and even get photos mailed out to the inlaws. I have recommended this book to several friends and family members. You simply cannot run your life successfully without managing your papers. God bless Barbara Hemphill!

This is it!
I have read at least a dozen books on how to get organized, at work or in general. As a professional with a private office, I have found this book the most helpful, inspirational, and practical among those. The language is neither condescending nor folksy; the principles are clearly stated and summarized; and all advice is eminently applicable. Now I have all my office files in half a drawer and I can produce any document within seconds. The author does not require you to clean up your office in one day: you are allowed to start from today's paper piles and work backwards as needed. We procrastinators are now officially out of excuses.