Office Organization
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Monday, September 24th, 2007OK, I’m going to come clean - right here, right now. I’m can be a paper pack rat. For someone who dwells in the digital domain, I stash a ton of paper in my home office. I have a four-drawer file cabinet stuffed with thousands of documents dating as far back as the previous millennium. [...]
Space. A Final Frontier
Thursday, September 13th, 2007When I created my first home office back in 1989, my desk became the repository for all things clerical. Papers, files, folders, my phone and Apple IIc computer all shared space atop a folding banquet table. I had a small file cabinet I’d kept from my college days that served as my drawers, and a [...]
Bullied By Your Boss?
Monday, September 10th, 2007On CNN this morning I was surprised to hear a story on bosses bullying their employees. They were talking about employees suing bad bosses for treating them unfairly. According to the ACLU, 37% of employees feel their bosses treat them
Snapshot of a Desk
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Stop. Look down. What’s the state of your desk right now? Is it a cluttered cacophony representing a chaotic mind? Or is it neat and tidy and certain to scare anyone otherwise beleaguered by a messy space? Your desk can speak wonders. What’s yours say about you?
Back Scratchin’ in the Home Office
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007We’re almost a month into the school year. School work is constant, as are extra curricular activities, late-stay for club meetings, and play dates for my little one. When our three kids get home, the home office can go haywire. How can it be controlled and the situation remain organized (or at least organized chaos)? [...]
On The Road (Once) Again…
Friday, August 31st, 2007It’s Friday morning. The sun hasn’t yet risen over the eastern horizon. And I’m in my office, ferreting out cables, and USB flash drives, and my Verizon USB wireless broadband adapter, and all the other things I will take with me on the road today. It’s travel hockey season, and we’re headed out on the [...]
The Basics of Organizing
Saturday, August 25th, 2007What is the secret to organization? Below are the four pillars of organizing.
Handle it
File it
Delegate it
or Throw it away
That’s it. Please see my article on organizing for more details.
Travel Decompression…
Sunday, August 19th, 2007As much fun as it is to prepare for a trip - gathering my stuff, buying extra gadgets, organizing my belongings and imagining the perfect office on the road - that’s how loathesome it is to come home. This week, I returned to my home office that was neat - but turned upside-down in very [...]
Two Weeks of Alternative Offices
Thursday, August 16th, 2007We’re finally on the homestretch of our vacation. For my family, it was all fun and games. For me, it was fun, games and some work. But as I was doing my twice-monthly interview on Jim Blasingame’s Small Business Advocate radio show this morning, we discussed that place where work is expected to end and [...]
An Office at Sea
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007I’m sitting in the cafeteria aboard the M/V Twin Capes, a ferry making the 17-mile crossing between Cape May, New Jersey, and Lewes, Delaware. It’s the last leg of our annual trip to the Northeast, and again, I’ve found a unique place to call “The Office.” A productivity hound in search of a place to [...]
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