The Neatness Expert, with perfect combed-back hair and a pressed gray suit, marched into Laura Isenstein’s office at the Towson branch of the Baltimore County Library and threw up his arms in ...

It starts innocently enough. A piece of mail doesn’t get put away; a project is set aside; items you think you might need someday accumulate. Suddenly, your desk has disappeared. Or, if you’re ...

Monday is national Clean Off Your Desk Day. It's a chance for you to straighten up those yellowing stacks of paper, or finally dump that dusty coffee mug that’s been sitting there for months.But ...

Albert Einstein famously quipped, “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” While the Nobel laureate was obviously advocating for the benefits of ...

March 3, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and Mark Twain. What is one thing these three visionaries have in common? They all ...

I recently started working out of a new office. When I arrived in late June, my desk was spotless. Less than a month later, it is completely covered with papers, books, magazines, notebooks, stamps ...

In the office, one’s desk is one’s domain. But unlike your messy bedroom at home, this abode is on display whether you like it or not, especially in ever-popular open office plans. So what message ...

My desk is a bubbling cauldron of entropy. In the crevices between my computer, books, and monitors, you'll find Metrocards, half-used tubes of orange-flavored Airbornes, empty water bottles and ...