Organizing Your Office and Your Life - Clear the Clutter and Your Mind

by Laura Stack

Do you have the ""Depression Mentality""? Are you tidy but disorganized? Do you have your organizing system in your head? If so, you need the help of bestselling author Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro. Laura will help you truly get organized at work and home, so you can retrieve information quickly. You will learn how to:

• Create the eight different types of files.
• Apply the six principles of filing to your system.
• Prevent the ""to be filed"" pile from overtaking your office.
• Finish what you start and complete short tasks quickly.
• Stay on top of things with a maintenance plan.

The key is controlling your clutter, instead of letting it control you. Laura will help you establish a place for everything and get everything in its place as soon as it hits your desk.

24 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, CPAE, is best known by her moniker “The Productivity Pro®.” Stack is an award-winning keynote speaker, bestselling author, and noted authority on sales, leadership, and team productivity. She is the President & CEO of The Productivity Pro, Inc., a boutique consulting firm helping leaders increase workplace performance in high-stress environments.

For over 30 years, Laura Stack’s keynote speeches and seminars have helped associations and Fortune 1000 corporations improve output, increase speed in execution, and save time in the office. She is a high-energy, high-content speaker, who educates, entertains, and motivates professionals to deliver bottom-line results. Stack is a member of the prestigious CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame, which has fewer than 200 members worldwide). She has earned the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation from the National Speakers Association, of which she was its president in 2011-2012.

Laura Stack is the bestselling author of nine books published by Random House, Wiley, and Berrett-Koehler, including her newest, The Dangerous Truth About Today’s Marijuana: Johnny Stack’s Life and Death Story (Freiling, July 2021). Her books have been published in more than 20 foreign editions, and she is a featured columnist for the American Business Journal, LinkedIn, Time Management, and Productive magazines. Stack has produced more than 50 online productivity training programs.

Laura Stack has been featured nationally on the CBS Early Show, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, and Forbes magazine. Stack has been a spokesperson for Fellowes, Microsoft, 3M, Skillsoft, Office Depot, Day-Timer, and Xerox. Her client list includes top Fortune 500 companies, including Starbucks, Wal-Mart, Aramark, Bank of America, GM, Wells Fargo, and Time Warner, plus government agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service, the United States Air Force Academy, the Census Bureau, the U.S. Senate, and the Department of Defense.

Reviews

[Alexandra · Rating 2 out of 5]

Something between a preview and table of contents of a book (not this one!). Has some good ideas that could be applied to a paperless office, but they're merely mentioned by name and not really developed. Feels... incomplete and rushed.

[Alexandra Chauran · Rating 2 out of 5]

I hate it when I neglect to look at the number of pages before placing a library hold. Yep, this was one of those "teaser" books that was produced to try to get you to buy other materials. Not only that, but the audiobook version I encountered sounded like it had simply been taped at a live workshop or something, so it had visual aids referenced that didn't make sense. It went through a very good daily work file system (does anybody besides teachers use paper files for that anymore?) and that's all.

[Jean · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excellent audio book (MP 3 format) on organizing.

[Kim · Rating 2 out of 5]

don't try the audiobook. she is talking about things you cannot see. it is also condescending