Total Workday Control Using Microsoft Outlook, 2nd Ed.
Total Workday Control Using Microsoft Outlook is a book for the over-extended office worker whose workday feels out of control. It shows how to regain command of an over-committed workday and an overflowing, unmanaged e-mail in box. It does this by teaching the author's system of time, task, and e-mail management, and it shows how to implement the system in Microsoft Outlook.Product Details
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Drowning in e-mail? Take this advice from author and workplace efficiency expert Michael Linenberger..." -- CourierPost Online, January 27, 2006
"If your Inbox has become a source of anxiety and stress... Michael Linenberger... has the solution" -- Investor's Business Daily, February 13, 2006
"It's not spam or cc'd mail that slows down your e-mail processing..." (this book shows how to fix it) -- Fast Company June 2006 Interview
"The system is easy to use... it works, it's not hard" -- Kurt Andrews, WIMO-AM Atlanta News Talk Radio, March 2006
About the Author
Michael Linenberger has been a management and technology professional for over twenty years, most recently as Vice President of Technology for Connection to eBay, an Accenture Service. As a management and technology consultant with Accenture, he has been advising and managing projects in the San Francisco Bay Area for clients such as: eBay, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Applied Materials, UPS, Adecco, and others. Before Accenture, Michael led the technology department at U.S. Peace Corps.
Customer Reviews
My in basket is empty
I have been using the author's recommendations for processing email in Outlook for several weeks now. It is quite pleasant to have an empty in- basket by the end of each day and a god grasp of where I need to take action. Book is well written and leads you through the changes to make in Outlook. I have been using Outlook for years, but now I feel I can use it efficiently.
Decent but basic
If you've bought into the GTD way of task management, you may reach for this book to help you tame your email and to do lists with Outlook. The book definitely has lots of information in it and is a nice companion to the system. But overall, this is a very basic book on some Outlook features slightly tailored to GTD. If you know GTD and you're good at Outlook, then this book is very basic and almost useless. I was hoping for more of an advanced book which used the deep Outlook features in a very unique and productive way. Ultimately this shows how to set up tasks and define rules and perhaps a bit of color coding. If you just use Outlook to read email, this book will be an eye-opener. But for those of us who already use tasks, categories, etc. this book will disappoint.
Well thought out and effective approach
I'd been tinkering with Outlook for a while trying to use it to manage my email and scheduling, but it just seemed too complicated. Mr. Linenberger presents a well thought out, efficient and effective method for using Outlook that I easily adapted to my own needs.
The day I first started reading the book I set about cleaning out the 2000+ emails in my inbox, and after a day and a half my inbox was empty. More importantly, I have been able to maintain an empty inbox each day for the past three weeks so I am sold.
Although I bought the book thinking it would help me to tame Outlook, as Mr. Linenberger alludes to in his book the benefits of having an empy inbox and control over my schedule are much, much larger than that. I was having serious stress issues with the number of projects that I handle simultaneously, and using this system I have eliminated about 75% of this stress.
This book has allowed me, more and more, to leave my work behind at the end of the day (which is still well into the evening but not quite as late as before). I can actually be "present" at home now instead of thinking about what I MAY have forgotten or missed.
Mr. Linenberger has done me an invaluable service by writing this book and it is worth every penny.
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