Product Description

Take control of the unrelenting e-mail, conflicting commitments, and endless interruptions—and take back your life! In this popular book updated for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, productivity experts Sally McGhee and John Wittry show you how to reclaim what you thought you’d lost forever—your work-life balance. Now you can benefit from McGhee Productivity Solutions’ highly-regarded corporate education programs, learning simple but powerful techniques for rebalancing your personal and professional commitments using Outlook 2007. Empower yourself to: •Clear away distractions, tie up loose ends, and focus on what’s really important to you. •Take charge of your productivity using techniques designed by McGhee Productivity Solutions and implemented by numerous Fortune 500 companies. •Balance your home and work priorities by exploiting the enhanced productivity, organizational, and search capabilities in Outlook 2007. •Go beyond just coping and surviving to taking charge of your time—and transform your life today! •PLUS—Get a quick reference poster to McGhee Productivity Solutions’ proven methodology for managing workflow. 

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49921 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

About the Author
Sally McGhee is recognized as a thought leader in the field of corporate
productivity management and is a leading innovator in the field of personal
productivity. She has provided productivity training and consultation for a
wide range of businesses and organizations throughout Europe, Asia, and the
United States. She has been a managing partner of productivity firms in
Europe and the United States, and she has developed and implemented
programs for Fortune 1000 firms.

Customer Reviews

Good but corny American style
Take Back Your Life is a genuinely useful book on how to use Outlook 2007 to improve time-management. I am using it at work and it has improved things so that it the litmus test.

But it does have irritating flaws.

The style is Americian corporate over-enthusiastic, and it keeps putting in corny dialogue as in ,
"We said, 'Great......Now what about profit and revenue'
Susan replied, 'Now you're really pinning me down!'
We responded, "That's exactly right..."

I say, "If you don't mind that style, well, great!"
But then I asked, "Doesn't it start to grate after a while?"
Then I said, "Just kidding! Ged it? Great and Grate!"
Then I responded, "Now, I'm starting to write in that unfocused way myself."


My fundamental point: It is a book about time-management but it takes far more words than is necessary to get its point across. Us busy, busy people don't have time for that.

This works for me, I give it cult status!
If you want to get better at managing your time and keep on top of the things that really matter whilst maintaining balance between your life and work, this is the book to help you do it. Sally McGhee's principles and guidelines, centered around MS Outlook, deserve a cult following!

Working through this book has helped me to gain clarity about the most important things in my life, identify the actions that will create these, plan them into my schedule and then act on them. McGhee recommends using the calendar to plan the day, and although I was initially sceptical, it has revolutionised the results I am achieving. The weekly review supports me to course correct and keep on track.

I have two jobs and a hectic personal life. I have studied countless other systems, methodologies and ideas. This one has really worked consistently for me over time, and McGhee's is practical, whilst underpinned by research that supports the principles espoused. For fans of GTD, there are similarities, McGhee and Allen having worked together in the past. However, this approach has given me the tools to create real change. If you want to use Outlook, or a similar application, McGhee has the answer.

I no longer am a slave to my inbox!
This book does, as another reviewer points out, go on a bit. It could have been written in 1/2 the number of pages - saved a tree of two and still made the point clear.

Having said that, I am no longer a slave to me inbox! Its really helped to explain how to use all the functions of outlook to change the way you work and help to reorganise yourself - I perhaps spend more time organising that I ever did before - but I do everything I expect to do every day.

I no longer come into work and stress about going through all the things that need to be done and I can work through my task list knowing that things are actually getting done - on time.

A GREAT READ - I'll pass it around the office to everyone I work with too!