The Organized Executive by Stephanie Winston
By Blue Rose on Monday, 3 of August , 2009 at 5:52 pm
(New Ways to Manage Time, Paper, People, and the Electronic Office)
“High-tech equals less paper, faster communication, more time, and decreased stress.” That is perhaps the greatest miscalculation of the Information Age. The wireless world promised a workplace of instant decisions and more leeway for personal leisure. Instead, cell phones chased away the peace and quite, e-mail invaded free hours, and all that newfangled software demanded a lot of paperwork without paper.
Stephanie Winston ran to the rescue with this book, a bestseller since its first release in 1994. She makes one point eloquently clear: don’t throw technology out – you can’t, anyway, since it’s here to stay. Instead, make it your friend, not your foe. The organized executive can create order out of the electronic chaos – it’s just a matter of mastering the man (or woman) first; the system will follow.
The book is divided into four parts. At the top of Winston’s list is the one important corporate theory that most corporate types seems to have forgotten: The Organizing Principle. Then, she gets to the nitty-gritty: clearing out the mountain of paper work, electronic or manual; managing time; maximizing staff. Only when the human resources – and the boss himself – are in order does she gets into “Getting Organized the Electronic Way.” This is where the author advises her corporate readers on how to build one efficient management set-up out of all the high-tech devices at one’s disposal.
Winston regularly updates this book, which gets thicker every two years. No electronic or digital information eludes her grasp or her system. And with reading this book one realizes that the confusion caused by so much state-of-the-art razzle-dazzle can immediately addressed by a fantastically organized mind.
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