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 enlarge | Author: Sally Mcghee
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 25587
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 316
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0735622159
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.57
EAN: 9780735622159
ASIN: 0735622159
Publication Date: June 22, 2005
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Condition: New, never read, may have minor wear from being on a retail store shelf.
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 Stong Emphasis on Up Front Planning July 3, 2006
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
I am a veteran Franklin Covey planner user and consider myself very well organized and a strong time manager. Our company recently made the move to outlook, and I purchased this book hoping to get some tips on how to make the most of planning with outlook from someone who had a time management orientation. What I didn't expect was to learn anything more about time management. Boy was I wrong! Sally provides some real eye openers about spending more time up front planning tasks to get to "Strategic Next Actions" - tasks you can actually do without any dependencies. She also packs in excellent tips on setting up a reference system, handling email, and using the outlook task categories to their full potential.
I was able to achieve my basic objective with this book. My planning system was one where I used my Franklin Covey Plan Plus for Outlook software to create a daily task list each day with only items I could do that day, and used a collection of spreadsheets and word documents to track more complex "projects." Sally show how to integrate all of this into outlook with both planning and action tasks.
If you are looking for an indepth book on outlook however this isn't it. Instead its what it is advertised to be - a book on organizing first that tells who how to use outlook to implement the organizing system Sally has developed. The outlook information you need to implement the system is provided in a concise fashion and was very helpful to me.
Outlook on Steroids April 2, 2006
40 out of 40 found this review helpful
I discovered this book while searching for something to help me manage the relentless flood of email coming at me every day (I had 900 unread emails at the time). I thought if I could become an outlook power user, I might be able to manage that number down. This book helped me learn the ins and outs of outlook, but more importantly, taught me a compelling approach to managing my crazy, demanding, overcommited, multi-tasking life. Mind you, I was a Franklin Planner flunky and a Day-Timer drop out, which made me a motivated learner. I literally devoured this book - read it cover to cover in just a few days (with a highlighter). Along the way I configured Outlook the work way the author recommends. I discussed it with friends. I actually implemented my own "IMS", which I think is what sets this book apart from David Allen's "Getting Things Done". You could read GTD, but the content may just "wash over you" and not make a practical difference in the way you work. This is specific, hands on, step by step instruction that if you're serious, will change the way you work in Outlook for the better. Highly recommended . . .
 Very Disappointing January 15, 2006
10 out of 35 found this review helpful
Such a simple concept which is in essence - "Make a list of things to do" "Decide when and how to do them"
Explained in such away as to make anyone dizzy, the book is the most poorly organised I think I have ever seen. The author never wanting to use a sentence to describe something when a page of words will do.
If you really treasure your time please do not waste any of it with this book.
I like to be organized and this book is helping January 3, 2006
16 out of 19 found this review helpful
I like to be organized because I use clutter to stop my creative process. As I create, I also create paper. Email creates clutter inside my computer. It generates more paper. After Hurricane Wilma I was swamped with emails and didn't know how to manage the process.
I am currently reading Sally's book `Take back your life!' and implementing her methods. In her book is teaching me how to set up and manage my Microsoft Outlook. I so needed her inspirations. I was laughing when I read:
Mary Baker loves her paper. She had papers on her desk, on the floor, and on her credenza. Wherever there was a surface, there were papers. She was having a hard time finding and filing papers with so many of them placed randomly about.(page 53)
Was she standing in my office or what? *sigh* Problem: The blogs and websites I have create traffic. From that traffic I get emails. It's a good thing if I had a system in place to manage the growth. I didn't. Once I got through Sally's lingo (she assigns her buzz words for tasks and actions) the book started to make sense. Common sense. That gave me the courage yesterday to sort through the 500 emails I had left over from 2005, edit and categorize them. Set up a new system. I feel grateful. I feel proud. Oh the relief!
"The answer is not in doing more. It's in slowing down so you can make better decisions and produce better results." --SALLY MCGHEE
Getting Outlook to do Things You Never Dreamed September 21, 2005
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Like a lot of software, Microsoft Outlook is a product that has grown over the years to a feature rich package capable of doing a lot of things. In this book, Ms. McGhee gives a complete description of all that you can do with Outlook. She starts with a several pages long Quick Reference. This is kind of boring, but it does give you a good introduction of the things you will be learning if you read the whole book. Alternatively you can use it to decide which features you want to learn about.
The one problem that I have with book is that Outlook is one of the most common packages attacked by virus programs. I would have expected a chapter on setting up a security system.
All in all, Outlook is a program that you probably already have on your system. It's use may even be required by your company. You just as well learn as much as you can about it. And even if you don't use Outlook, the procedures developed here would still be useful.
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