Book Reviews
Crenshaw’s - “The Myth of Multitasking - How ‘Doing it All’ Gets Nothing Done” is Well Worth the Read
By Stephanie Calahan
Time management is a struggle for many professionals and in the past, those that could multi-task were revered and thought to be “super productive.” Not so says Dave Crenshaw, and I have to admit I agree! As a recovering Multitask-er (or Switchtasker as he puts it) I was excited to get to this [...]
The Four-Hour Work Week
By Lois Raats
I found myself in Words Worth Books last week, and spent some time browsing through Timothy Ferriss’s The Four-Hour Work Week, the book that’s been on bestseller lists all year. I have to admit I’m still pretty skeptical about the 4-hours-a-week idea - but he definitely outlines a number of ideas and strategies [...]
Books That Made The Difference
By Bernadette Doyle
Since I was a small child, I’ve always loved reading. Even though I don’t buy as many books as I used to (I’ve learned that the real ‘meat’ is contained in the higher priced home-study courses and trainings offered by these authors), my love of books has contributed to quite a bulging book [...]
Book Review: Be the Employee Every Boss Wants! 26 Ways to Bullet-Proof Your Career
By Janet Barclay, MVA
Looking for a job is a stressful process for most people, so the last thing anyone wants is to find themselves back on the job market shortly after becoming employed. Although most young people leave school with the hard skills needed to do the work, they often lack the soft skills that [...]
Book Review - Small Giants - Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
By Jeff Chavez
When you typically think of a “business,” the image that comes to mind is an enterprise existing for the purpose of profit - and the more profit the better. That’s what capitalism is all about, right? The entrepreneurial dream of starting from nothing and making it big - like Ray Kroc did with [...]
Book Review: The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable
By Janet Barclay, MVA
The Big Moo is a collection of business ideas edited by Seth Godin that is just perfect for busy people who don’t think they have time to read! It’s small enough to fit in your purse or briefcase, and since the chapters are only two to three pages long, [...]
Book Review: Time Management for Unmanageable People
By Janet Barclay, MVA
By the time they seek the help of a professional organizer, many people have already read countless books about getting organized, only to become frustrated when they’re unable to apply the authors’ suggestions. While teaching time management courses, author Ann McGee-Cooper noticed that the prescribed systems worked well for half of the [...]
Book Review: Organizing for Your Brain Type by Lanna Nakone
by Janet Barclay, MVA
There are thousands of organizing books on the market. In fact, a search for books on Amazon.com using the keyword “organizing” yields over 160,000 results, which tells us, if nothing else, that there are thousands of people out there who consider themselves experts in this area.
The problem is that many of these [...]
Book Review: Never Eat Alone: A Book on Managing Time and Life
By Jim Estill
I read a great book on the way to Fremont, Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi with Tahl Raz. I highly recommend it. Although I network a lot, it was an inspirational refresher. It is about networking (the people kind, not the computer kind: although I am an advocate of both).
As a time [...]
Book Review: Take Back Your Life! Using Microsoft Outlook(R) to Get Organized and Stay Organized
By Janet Barclay, MVA
For a long time, I believed Microsoft Outlook(R) to be a powerful yet highly underutilized time management tool, but was frustrated because the courses I took covered only the basics, and none of the books I read went sufficiently in depth to satisfy my desire to use this program to [...]
