Everything in Its Place: The Power of Mise-En-Place to Organize Your Life, Work, and Mind

Previously published in hardcover as Work Clean, this organizational book is inspired by the culinary world: how to take the principles of mise-en-place out of your kitchen and into your life.

Every day, chefs across the globe churn out enormous amounts of high-quality work with efficiency using a system called mise-en-place--a French culinary term that means "putting in place" and signifies an entire lifestyle of readiness and engagement. In Everything in Its Place, Dan Charnas reveals how to apply mise-en-place outside the kitchen, in any kind of work.

Culled from dozens of interviews with culinary professionals and executives, including world-renowned chefs like Thomas Keller and Alfred Portale, this essential guide offers a simple system to focus your actions and accomplish your work. Charnas spells out the 10 major principles of mise-en-place for chefs and non-chefs alike: (1) planning is prime; (2) arranging spaces and perfecting movements; (3) cleaning as you go; (4) making first moves; (5) finishing actions; (6) slowing down to speed up; (7) call and callback; (8) open ears and eyes; (9) inspect and correct; (10) total utilization.

This journey into the world of chefs and cooks shows you how each principle works in the kitchen, office, home, and virtually any other setting.

Author: Dan Charnas
Publisher: Rodale Books
Published: 12/26/2017
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781635650112
ISBN10: 1635650119
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Personal Success
- Self-Help | Self-Management | General
- House & Home | Cleaning, Caretaking & Organizing

About the Author
Dan Charnas is an award-winning culture, lifestyle, and business writer. Recipient of the 2007 Pulitzer Fellowship for Arts Journalism, his first book, The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, was called "a classic of music-business dirt digging as well as a kind of pulp epic" by Rolling Stone. He lives in New York City.