[.ca] Organizing for the Creative Person: Right-Brain Styles ... (ISBN 0517881640)

Not very impressive:
Quite disappointed, actually. I found the book to be repetitive on a lot of topics ("Same mopwater ~ different bucket"). The book did not offer any solid way of organizing my studio, office, nor home. I found it to be a book on accepting the way you are as being "different ~ and that's OK". I didn't need a self-help book on "loving myself"...I needed concrete ideas of what to do with the abundance of stuff in the studio. I do not want to simply put a cloth over my mess and ask my family to put up with my "right-brain" a little longer. I am a professional artist and I find I am far more organized than this book could ever hope to make me. I could never put up with some of the "few" organizing styles in this book and I consider myself the right-brained creative type. In conclusion, I would highly recommend the book "Confessions of an Organized Homemaker" as an alternative. I've read it before (borrowed from a friend) and was thoroughly impressed, motivated, and inspired. "Confessions" gave the reader actual means of putting away your things in an organized & convenient fashion. I will be ordering "Confessions" this week.

If you're right-brained, this book works:
I have read this book about twice now and I believe the authors completely understand right-brained (RB) people and wrote the book in a way that works well for RB's. My belief is that the people that gave this less of a review were perhaps not as much in the RB mode as they suspected. The book uses diagrams, formatting, summaries, examples and specific advice very well, making it easy for us RBs to understand why we're different and how to make the most of it.

Not Very Creative:
What an incredible disappointment!! I have to agree with the point of view of one other reader...this book has absolutely nothing new to tell anyone about organizing... the writers try to pretend there is a different spin to their method, but it just ain't true! I read the book hoping that someone would give me some refreshing ideas that would enable me to throw away my daytimer forever. Imagine my suprise when we get down to the nitty-gritty and up pops the picture of a daytimer-type organizer page, as well as other materials taught at Franklin Covey seminars!! Hey, if that had worked I would not have picked up this book! Bottom line I got from the book: creative people have to learn to stop and focus some of the time. Consider yourself right-brained in a left-brained world and do the best you can. There is nothing new under the sun!

I couldn't stop laughing and/or being grateful !!!:
I read this book while on jury duty. We spent a lot of time in the hall on hard benches. I regularly startled my fellow jurors by slapping my open hand on the wooden bench, and laughing out loud. Yes, I am now diagnosed a "creative/right brainer" -- especially when it comes to organizing. I have a shelf of books on this topic; I have hired professionals; I have two assistants, and only now realize why none of them understands me. THEY ARE ALL LEFT-BRAIN ANALYICAL ORGANIZERS! I found dozens of useful tips and suggestions. The biggest thing I was left with is this: THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH ME. All other organizing books are written for left-brain thinkers. Thanks to Dorothy and Dolores for finally writing a book for me. Get it, keep it, and tell all your friends who need this. You know who they are.

A Bible For The Entrepreneurial Manager:
I'm an executive in a highly competitive and aggressive sales organization with a colorful mix of "creative" and "analytical" minds. Beyond the valuable "personal organizational system" offered, this book is a powerful awareness tool for those expected to develop people's potential into bottom-line benefits; offering leaders a better understanding of how the two types of minds experience and interact with their world, and then how to synchronize them into a highly efficient go-to-market machine. It's very easy to make this book about you but, its true value is in making it work for those that work for and with you - then, everyone wins... especially, your customer!