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The Paper Tiger filing system is the simplest way to get organized and reduce clutter in your life. If time management, office organization, records management, document management or simply keeping up with the paper piles on your desk are an issue, you will Love this paper filing software. For many people, the paperless office is simply a myth and office filing has increased, not decreased.
Here is just a sample of the on-line articles about the software and the professional organizers available to help you - should you need organizing tips (does not include the 100s of in-print articles written related to the software since its introduction in 1998).
- You Need to Get to Work!
- March 19, 2007 - Steffany Mohan needs to be organized. The dentist from Des Moines, Iowa, runs her own practice, as well as a school for dental assistants on the side. She has three children under 8—and is expecting her fourth in a few weeks. Her husband is a busy surgeon. Not surprisingly, her desk is a jumble of in-process items. Her to-do list appears endless, and she's constantly struggling to make headway. So last month Mohan flew in productivity consultant Barbara Hemphill from North Carolina for a two-day intervention.…more »
- From Newsweek
- Organizational psychologist - Mary Ann Pate's business is making clients more productive
- August 17, 2006 - About half of her clients are very organized individuals who have just hit the wall. "They have too much on their plate and have become overwhelmed with work and responsibilities," she said. "That can be a good thing, since it could be because their business has grown so successful, but it's easy to lose control."…more »
- From Bizjournals.com
- Garages Motor to New Heights
- July 10, 2006 - "The garage is the new frontier," says Barry Izsak, author of Organize Your Garage in No Time. "Everyone is getting in on the action." It was only a matter of time, he says. "The average American two-car garage had become the no-car garage. Ironically, the room in the house that has its door open to the world every day is the most unsightly. It's the family dumping ground, the place to put something we don't know what to do with."…more »
- From USA TODAY
- A Tidy Person with a Passion for Organisation
- June 5, 2006 - Filing cabinet companies have reported that sales are up 80 percent. That is because fax machines and e-mail actually generates more paper. Studies have shown that there was actually 50 percent more paper in the office in 2005 than there was ten years ago, 80 percent of which is never used.…more »
- From The Royal Gazette
- Getting Organized, Staying Organized
- May 8, 2006 - Next the Nelsons “Filtered” each paper and made one of five decisions: discard, delegate, take immediate action, file for follow-up, or file for reference. This was a key step, as the Nelsons at times were tempted to take the piece of paper and go to work on it, versus making a quick decision about what action the paper required. If it couldn’t be done within 60 seconds or less, they placed in their tickler file to be followed up on later. “Discard,” the first decision, was the most important decision.Why? Because 80 percent of what is filed is never referred to again. The Nelsons used The Art of Wastebasketry — a program developed by the Kiplinger Washington Editors Inc. and Monticello Corp. — to help guide them through whether they should keep or toss the papers. The result: They transformed two jam-packed, fourdrawer vertical file cabinets into just one.…more »
- From Northern Nevada Business Weekly
- Work Smarter by Managing
- May 1, 2006 - The advent of technology and its myriad of tools and gadgets have made a tremendous impact in the world and in our lives. They are also essential to being productive and organized in the workplace by helping keep us from being buried in papers, which can be quite costly.…more »
- From Kristin White del Rosso
- Tax Record-Keeping Tips
- April 20, 2006 - "When I began organizing people's homes," says the creator of the Taming the Paper Tiger document management system, "I found people who had 40 and 50 years of bank statements, but who were not balancing their checkbook."…more »
- From Bankrate.com
- Penfield woman seeks help with de-cluttering
- March 25, 2006 - Getting organized isn't always as easy as TV's Clean Sweep…more »
- From The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
- Survival Skills for Sufferers of Information Overload; 8-Hour Miracle™ Guarantees Results
- March 7, 2006 - Four San Francisco Bay Area productivity specialists are offering relief to businesspersons who are drowning in information, piles of paper and full email boxes…more »
- From Technology Marketing Corporation
- Providing employees right tools, key to quality growth
- February 17, 2006 - Today's leaner business environment creates an employee population that simultaneously is pulled in multiple directions. But what you may not know is that multitasking actually causes a drop in productivity…more »
- From The Business Journal of Phoenix
- Disaster-proof your important papers
- August 29, 2005 - What would you do if you had five minutes to clear out of your house? Five minutes to grab every crucial financial document before the house crumbles -- property titles, wills, insurance records, Social Security cards -- and you need to do it, even with all the chaos surrounding you. Could you do it? Think fast! Would you even know what to grab?…more »
- From Bankrate, Inc.
- Esselte Press Release
- April 29, 2005 - Pendaflex, the leading U.S. office supplies company, has launched a joint venture with Hemphill Productivity Institute (“HPI”) and its founder, Barbara Hemphill, to establish the Pendaflex Productivity Institute.…more »
- From Pendaflex
- After April 15, Managing Your Own Paper Trail
- April 19, 2005 - With last week's tax filing deadline past -- and that box of canceled checks, pay stubs and other records probably still cluttering the house -- it's time to consider the fate of your paper trail.…more »
- From Washington Post
- Search Engines Calm Chaos at Office and Home
- April 1, 2005 - Close to three workweeks are wasted each year by the average executive looking for lost information, according to the Wall Street Journal. Would you like to recapture those 150 hours for profitable activities such as increasing business or having more leisure time?…more »
- From Women's Business Cincinnati
- New Year's Resolution for 2004: 'Time to get organized at work'
- December 26, 2003 - "Where did I put that telephone number?"
"Has anyone see our contract?"
"What time was my appointment?"
And finally…"Where did this day go?"
Switch to Jan. 1, 2004: "I've got to get organized."…more » - From Houston Business Journal
- TAMING THE CLUTTER BEAST
- October 4, 2003 - Is your home office the scariest room in the house? The teetering piles of unfiled papers. The missing permission slip. The bill you swear you paid but the phone company thinks otherwise. The soccer schedule. That business card for the great upholsterer. They're all here somewhere!…more »
- From St. Petersburg Times
- She's a Paper Tiger
- August 1, 2003 - Ten years ago, Mel Rappleyea's office was a disaster. Then vice president of human resources at Moovies Inc., Rappleyea could hardly open his door because of the stacks of paper and magazines. "It was kind of like digging through the ground and being able to tell the time frame of when something died," he remembers. "If I was going through a stack of paper, I could say, 'Well, I'm down to last May.'"…more »
- From Fast Company
- Here's to a clutter-free 2003
- January 14, 2003 - The New Year is full of resolutions. Unfortunately, it’s also full of last year’s clutter.…more »
- From Network World
- TIP: Taming the Paper Tiger
- December 18, 2000 - So much for the paperless office. Most of us deal with more paper each year, rather than less. My solution to the mountains of paper in my home office was to be creative.…more »
- From Internet Business Forum, Inc.
- Get It Together: Reference Files
- February 10, 2000 - …more »
- From Ancestry.com
- Get It Together: Cleaning Off Your Desktop
- January 12, 2000 - …more »
- From Ancestry.com
- Piles Preclude Productivity
- December 31, 1969 - In the typical In Box, according to Kiplinger's Taming the Paper Tiger (an excellent little organizing database program for the Windows platform), 40% of what's piled there can be tossed or recycled; 40% can be filed for future reference, and only 20% require action.…more »
- From The Lead Well Institute
- The Papers You Can Find May Make a Difference
- December 31, 1969 - Let's face it! Most of us know there are important information and records we should have readily available at our fingertips. What are your wishes in case of a life-threatening medical emergency? Where is the safe deposit box key? Who should your spouse contact in your company in case of a disaster?…more »
- From SCORE
