The Desk Hutch: Why You DON’T Want One in Your Home Office

The “desk hutch” is something you will find in many home office catalogues and online decorating sites and blogs. I am here to tell you that they are a waste of valuable desktop real estate. In the last The Smarter Home Office post we talked about the need for a large work surface on you…There’s more. Click here.

Quick Home Office Energizer: Open a Window and Let Light and Life In

Recently I noticed that the sky looks bluer and more intense during the fall. During the summer it is a pale blue, while during the winter it often is a pale gray. We tend to focus on the brilliant colors of the changing foliage, but overlook the deeper blue that highlights the golds, reds and…There’s more. Click here.

Phone Book Clutter in Your Home Office: Green Solutions

How many phone books do you have in your  home office? How many do you actually use? Do you have out-dated directories or out-dated out-of-town phone books? Where do you store them? They are not only bulky and heavy, but they are floppy. Do you realize that it take 19 million trees annually to make…There’s more. Click here.

“Made to Stick” authors say change the environment, not the employee.

In their new book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, Chip and Dan Heath write that change/innovation involves both the rational and emotional sides of our brains and our personalities. In the March issue of Inc., senior editor Bobbie Gossage, wrote the Heath brothers have discovered sometimes what needs to be changed…There’s more. Click here.