Detox Your Desk: Declutter Your Life and Mind

By Theo Theobald and Cary Cooper - Published by Capstone, December 07

“Why is there never enough time in the day to do all the stuff you want to?

Why does your in-tray just keep growing? Is it alive?”

We used to allow work to fill the time allocated to it, but most of us are now embarked on a voyage of self-sabotage where we unconsciously leave tasks permanently undone, as if to give ourselves something to stress over. Changes in society, technology and culture have driven a horse and cart through the traditional boundaries of the working day, so that it’s pointless pretending any more that there’s a work/life balance to be struck – work is interwoven with our existence. So, it follows that if we detox our desks, we’ll declutter our lives and minds.

Written for the time-starved and terminally untidy, Detox Your Desk: Declutter Your Life and Mind, the forthcoming book from Cary Cooper & Theo Theobald, provides the prefect antidote to the pressure cooker of the modern office, by...

• Drawing on the experience of business leaders and academics, plus workers; the people who do the jobs that keep our organisations running
• Outlining a ten-day detox programme that’ll result in a tidy workspace and a clear head
• Dividing all this into three stages – analysis, method and application

Detox Your Desk is not a self-help book – because self-help is for people with time on their hands. It is however a book for everyone with a desk, a workstation, an allocated piece of employee space or simply not enough time to do the things they need to get done - equally applicable at work or at home.

About the Authors:

Cary Cooper is a BUPA Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Manchester School of Management (UMIST). Cary is President of the British Academy of Management and also President of the Institute of Welfare Officers.

Theo Theobald is a freelance writer and business consultant with a track record that includes six years in senior sales and marketing management positions with the BBC and a creative writing career embracing major internet and audio production. In 2001 he started his own company, Shocktactic Ltd, and has undertaken major writing and production projects for a host of organisations such as the BBC and CIPD.

Paperback Original;  £9.99/15 EUR;  ISBN: 9781841127873

For more information, or to request a review copy, extract, competition copies or an interview with the authors, please contact: Caroline Baines - E: cbaines@wiley.co.uk, T: 01243 770674