ARoundTuit Organizing & Productivity

This Rhymes with Orange comic was published in last Sunday’s paper, and has since spread like wildfire through Professional Organizer list serves and emails. If you can relate to this, we need to talk.

On a more *professional* note, there are two things I want to point out in this comic, which demonstrate the artist’s keen understanding of office (dis)organization.

1. It makes perfect sense that there would be stuff all over the place, since there’s nowhere to put any of it away.

… Continue Reading

MOST COMMON PAPERWORK WORK FLOW

This cartoon pretty much says it all for many people.  The more information we have coming our way, the harder it is to deal with.

That’s because the brain can only focus on a few things at a time.  Like your computer, when your brain is overloaded, it shuts down (i.e. give up making decisions and pile up papers to process “later”).

How did things get so bad?

Some information clutter occurs naturally when it simply comes in faster than we … Continue Reading

Happiness, or at least contentment can boost productivity more than we realize.  I know for me, Dilberts’ sometimes ridiculously accurate portrayals of office life do the trick.

Monday 8/24/09 and Tuesday 8/25/09 strips poke fun at productivity software.  Now back to work with you!

To see a larger image, click here.