The Well-Ordered Office: How to Create an Efficient and Serene Workspace

By Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett and Dr Kathleen Kendall-Tackett PhD Ibclc

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 The Well-Ordered Office, 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 in your work space. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572243856
• ISBN13: 9781572243859
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

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!

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.

Even I can do this!

I came home from work and got comfy on the couch with this book and some leftover Chinese. As I read, I could feel my shoulders come down from around my ears. My breathing slowed. I peacefully glided through the advice of this book while my psyche responded to the assurance that all was going to be well. I did not want to put it down to go to bed. I woke knowing that I was up to the task of getting my stuff in order, and ready to do it. I went looking for the book, and found it in my purse. I felt better knowing it was easily accessible. When I am done, it will live in my night-stand and go with me on trips. I brought it to work today because as soon as I have a few moments, I will be reading. It should be titled, "Tweak Your Life Towards Sanity." For those who have never known sanity, you will when you are done with this. Dr. Kendall-Tackett has delivered more than she promised.