Learn personal organization from the true experts: Chefs

Work Clean & Everything In Its Place take mise-en-place outside the kitchen.

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The Chef's System

The productivity and multitasking abilities of great chefs put the rest of us to shame. In Work Clean, author Dan Charnas uncovers the key to their efficiency: mise-en-place.

What is mise-en-place?

(French: “put in place”) 

 

It’s the world’s most potent personal organization system, devised by chefs.   

 

It transforms its practitioners through focus and self-discipline. 

 

And it’s a system that anyone can use…

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The Book

Culled from over 100 interviews with culinary professionals, Work Clean is the first-ever book about mise-en-place:

• Discover the 10 ingredients of mise-en-place.

• Learn through the stories of great chefs like Thomas Kellerand Marcus Samuelsson.

• Get practical exercises to develop robust organizational habits.

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Your New System

The Work Clean System extracts mise-en-place from the kitchen and applies its principles to your life—whether you have an office job, are a teacher or student, or just want to be more organized at home.

The centerpiece of the Work Clean System is the Daily Meeze, your 30-minute daily planning session.

The App

The Work Clean App for iPhone is the best way to incorporate the Work Clean System into your day:

• Quickly input Action items

• Easily sort Actions into Missions

• Order your Actions so you always see what’s on your Frontburner

The Author

DAN CHARNAS is an award-winning culture and business writer, music and TV producer, and professor. Recipient of the 2007 Pultizer Fellowship for Arts Journalism, he is the author of three books; the executive producer of the VH1 series The Breaks; and teaches at New York University. Contact him here.

 

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