Organizing Your Home Office for Success: Expert Strategies That Can Work for You

by Lisa Kanarek

Book Overview

Running a home office is nothing like running a corporate office, or, for that matter, like running a home. This step-by-step guide is filled with proven strategies for creating a functional,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964347016
• ISBN13: 9780964347014
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Blakely Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

For even the more experienced home office based entrepreneur

Organizing Your Home Business: Arrange Your Home Office For Maximum Productivity by home office expert, business consultant and public speaker Lisa Kanarek, is a solid written, "user friendly" guide to managing time and space in a home office for maximum efficiency. Step-by-step instructions and guidelines for setting one's own hours, tricks for saving space, troubleshooting, learning computerized record keeping, dealing with the IRS, staying organized, balancing work life and home life, creating a "car office kit", and much, much more fill this extremely practical and useful guide. Organizing Your Home Business is very highly recommended for novice home workers, and has a great deal of value for even the more experienced home office based entrepreneur.

Calm, at last, and still!

As an adult with ADD, I am so thankful I found this book in 1999! That was pre-diagnosis and it made life in my home office so much easier! It is still on the shelf right above my file cabinet and is referred to when needed to refresh my memory. Lisa Kanarek puts forth a readable, practical book that is easy to follow. Her basic home office supplies on p. 56 was especially helpful as were her sample categories for filing receipts on p. 162.The book is a must have!

A guide you will refer to time and time again

Whether you telecommute or have a home business, this book is a must read. Full of how to's for office planning, set-up, and maintainenance, this is a guide you will refer to time and time again. Lisa Kanarek has provided effective and practical tips for creating an office at home. Her general organizing revelations are right on target: * being a neatnik is not the same thing as being organized, * don't label any of your files "miscellaneous" or you'll spend wasted time trying to find lost documents * you don't have to be born organized to become organized - Learn how by using Kanarek's "4 Keys to Organization".It's like having a professional organizer right by your side, every step of the way throughout the home office organizing process. With Kanrek's basic "toss or keep" questions for getting organized, storage and space-saving tips, and formulas for increased performance, Organizing Your Home Office for Success is a staple to add to any home office supply list.

Inspired me to take charge of my office

Good book. Of course it has stuff we all know about - 'a place for everything, and everything in it's place', but how many of us actually practise what we know? When i finished this book, the organization demon took over and I finished organizing my office in one sitting. I liked the idea of having everything you need in a circle around you and questioning whether you really need something, else tossing it out - essential for a pack-rat like me.

Options for getting organized

Most organizing books give you only one way to do something but not this book. It gave me options for organizing my papers, home office, my day and other parts of my life. I found out that I don't have to file all of my papers in cabinets (Kanarek offered several options), I can toss my useless planning system and use one of the many described in her book and I learned new ways to make technology shave time off each day. This book is exactly what I needed!