Getting Organized in the Google Era: How to Stay Efficient, Productive (and Sane) in an Information-Saturated World
How to Stay Efficient, Productive (and Sane) in an Information-saturated World
$28.75
- Paperback
228 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2011
Summary
Whether it’s a faulty memory, a tendency to multitask, or difficulty managing our time, every one of us has limitations conspiring to keep us from being organized. But, as organizational guru and former Google CIO Douglas C. Merrill points out, it isn’t our fault. Our brains simply aren’t designed to deal with the pressures and competing demands on our attention in today’s fast-paced, information-saturated, digital world. What’s more, he says, many of the ways in which our society is structur…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385528184 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0385528183 |
| Author: | Douglas Merrill, James A. Martin |
| Publisher: | Crown Business |
| Imprint: | Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 228 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 132mm x 202mm |
Critics Review
Getting Organized in the Google Era breaks new ground…guiding you to solutions that honor your unique personality. Smart, non-judgmental and filled with practical advice. -Julie Morgenstern, NY Times bestselling author of Organizing from the Inside Out and Never Check Email in the Morning. “Douglas Merrill has worked a near-miracle: In short, simple steps, he shows how to become powerful and confident in a world of too much info and too little time. This isn’t just the book I wished I’d written, it’s the book I need to give to people I care about.” -Quentin Hardy, Forbes Magazine.
This book has been a terrific resource for a messy-desked, attention-challenged thinker of random thoughts like me! Thanks to Douglas Merrill, I now use digital tools to find almost everything and my transition from paper to digital is no longer awkward. This is a marvelous book, with tremendous ideas on every page. -Susan Scott, NY Times bestselling author of Fierce Conversations, Achieving Success at Work & in Life - One Conversation at a Time, and Fierce Leadership, A Bold Alternative to the Worst “Best” Practices of Business Today.
“Perhaps only Douglas Merrill could take us from Frederick Winslow Taylor to cloud computing to getting organized in one helpful read. This is the book to help you stay ahead of your own avalanche of information so that it’s always accessible and useful to you.”
- Dave Girouard, President of Enterprise Group, Google, Inc.
Douglas Merrill
DOUGLAS C MERRILL is the Founder & CEO of ZestCash - a financial services technology company committed to serving the underbanked - and was previously Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Engineering at Google. Prior to Google, Douglas was a Senior Vice President at Charles Schwab and Co. and an information scientist at the RAND Corporation. He has a Ph.D. in cognitive science from Princeton University.
JAMES A MARTIN is a PC World technology blogger, whose articles have appeared in many publications and on web sites including Washingtonpost.com.
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