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Focusing on what happens at the office, the organizing and time management expert reads a smooth essay on the mental and behavioral skills needed to achieve your highest goals. First make a career choice that works for your whole self, not just your compulsive, overachieving working self. Advice and skills such as prioritizing tasks, creating time, anticipating change, delegating, avoiding time nibblers, working with others, and leveraging your strengths are organized into 34 "grab-and-go" strategies that are spaced throughout the program. In this audio, the veteran organizer has assembled the perfect balance of principle and practice. It's sure to become the audio equivalent of the dog-eared Bible, read every day by working people around the world. T.W. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Book Description

Maintaining control in today's hectic workplace is a challenge -- everything is lean, competitive, and uncertain. What does it take to survive? Must you sign away your life in blood? Live in fear of being fired? Quit your job and move to the countryside? Not at all.

Through the mastery of nine essential skills, Morgenstern shows how small changes in your thinking and behavior will help you achieve the seemingly impossible -- boost your value, increase your job security, and afford you the time to still have a life. Morgenstern has helped clients of all levels take control of their work lives in every industry imaginable. This book mirrors the individual consulting services she provides by showing you how to start with yourself and then tackle the more complex external issues of working relationships and the job.

With insight and warmth, Morgenstern gives fresh "grab-and-go" strategies such as: Avoid e-mail for the first hour of the day. It's addictive and steals your most productive time.
Trust your truth. Never undervalue your unique self, skills, and point of view.
Beware multitasking. Scattering your efforts makes for a longer day.
"Dance close to the revenue line." Making and saving money is where your greatest value lies.
"Crunch the container." Shorten your workday by thirty minutes and you will get more done.

Making Work Work transcends industries, job titles, and even economic climates. With the process taught in this book, you will feel less trapped and more in charge -- you'll able to make a bad situation better, restore a formerly good situation, or search for a job that's a better fit for who you are.

With Morgenstern's guidance you can find a way to make work work.

About the Author
Julie Morgenstern, founder and owner of Task Masters, is the author of the New York Times bestseller Organizing from the Inside Out and Time Management from the Inside Out. Her column, "Getting Organized," appears monthly in O, The Oprah Magazine. A speaker, media expert, and corporate spokesperson, she lives in New York City.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Maintaining control in today's hectic workplace is a challenge -- everything is lean, competitive, and uncertain. What does it take to survive? Must you sign away your life in blood? Live in fear of being fired? Quit your job and move to the countryside? Not at all.

Through the mastery of nine essential skills, Morgenstern shows how small changes in your thinking and behavior will help you achieve the seemingly impossible -- boost your value, increase your job security, and afford you the time to still have a life. Morgenstern has helped clients of all levels take control of their work lives in every industry imaginable. This book mirrors the individual consulting services she provides by showing you how to start with yourself and then tackle the more complex external issues of working relationships and the job.

With insight and warmth, Morgenstern gives fresh "grab-and-go" strategies such as: Avoid e-mail for the first hour of the day. It's addictive and steals your most productive time.
Trust your truth. Never undervalue your unique self, skills, and point of view.
Beware multitasking. Scattering your efforts makes for a longer day.
"Dance close to the revenue line." Making and saving money is where your greatest value lies.
"Crunch the container." Shorten your workday by thirty minutes and you will get more done.

Making Work Work transcends industries, job titles, and even economic climates. With the process taught in this book, you will feel less trapped and more in charge -- you'll able to make a bad situation better, restore a formerly good situation, or search for a job that's a better fitfor who you are.

With Morgenstern's guidance you can find a way to make work work.

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

Whether in the executive boardroom or a windowless cubicle, the key to a more balanced, productive existence, according to organizer extraordinaire Morgenstern, is PEP (physical health, escape and people), the four Ds (delete, delay, delegate and diminish) and a healthy dose of reality about what is doable, and what is impossible, at work. Written in the same to-the-point approach as her Organizing from the Inside Out, this volume espouses a combination of philosophies that not only makes a whole lot of sense but is practical and applicable to the real world, no matter what the job or office setting. Each "competency" (as the chapters are called) includes scenarios taken from actual clients, bullet-pointed tips known as "grab-and-go-strategies," from getting away from wasteful e-mails to planning your day better and always dancing "close to the revenue line." Morgenstern promises readers a significant change in their workload, productivity level and all-around confidence if they refrain from reading, replying to or even perusing e-mail in the first hour of the day. This may be a hard sell for some desk-based professionals, but it's clear that Morgenstern knows her stuff. The habits of workaholics and perfectionists, she argues, are impractical and will render one unproductive. In accessible, encouraging prose, Morgenstern helps readers learn their boundaries, limits, strengths and weaknesses. Agent, Joni Evans. (Sept.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

AudioFile

Focusing on what happens at the office, the organizing and time management expert reads a smooth essay on the mental and behavioral skills needed to achieve your highest goals. First make a career choice that works for your whole self, not just your compulsive, overachieving working self. Advice and skills such as prioritizing tasks, creating time, anticipating change, delegating, avoiding time nibblers, working with others, and leveraging your strengths are organized into 34 "grab-and-go" strategies that are spaced throughout the program. In this audio, the veteran organizer has assembled the perfect balance of principle and practice. It's sure to become the audio equivalent of the dog-eared Bible, read every day by working people around the world. T.W. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Pat Riley

Until you change the way you work at things, the things you work at will never change. Julie teaches how to change those things and become more energetic and efficient at work. This book is a must for anyone who loves to work. — President, the Miami HEAT

Brian Tracy

Wow! What a great book. Here in one place you learn how to get organized and get more done, faster than you ever thought possible. This is a handbook for personal success. — author of Time Power

Ken Blanchard

"This book is brimming with great ideas for making our working lives better. And when work is working for us, that's when we can serve ourselves and others best." — coauthor of The One Minute Manager￯﾿ﾽ and The On-Time, On-Target Manager

Marcus Buckingham

"As someone who is always one stack of papers or one missed meeting away from being on top of things, I found Julie Morgenstern's MAKING WORK WORK invaluable. Creativity, they say, comes only to the prepared mind. Julie's book will help every reader get prepared to give of their best." — co-author of First, Break All The Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths

Cathie Black

"I have experienced the magic and mystery of Julie first hand. Magic because she makes the complex, so simple. Mystery because she makes it look easy. And it is! These tips and strategies can help you be more productive and efficient--immediately." — President of Hearst Magazines

Rosalene Glickman

"Apply the information in Making Work Work to catapult your efficiency to unprecedented heights. If you want to see a dramatic improvement in your performance, this is your book." — Ph.D., author of Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self

Alan M. Webber

"If you're like me, you're probably sick and tired of the Dilbert-eye view of the world of work. The good news is, there's an alternative. Work can be meaningful, productive, worthwhile, even fun. Want to know how? Read this book! Real help is inside these covers." — Founding Editor, Fast Company

Laura Berman Fortgang

"Julie Morgenstern is one smart woman and this is one smart book you won't want to do without. Julie has the indelible ability to break things down into concrete, achievable steps. She makes the work of work clear and puts you at the helm of your ship---at the top of your game---in-step, balanced and alive!" — author of Now What? 90 Days to a New Life Direction and Living Your Best Life

Dr. Judith Sills