Feng Shui at Work : Arranging Your Work Space to Achieve Peak Performance and Maximum Profit [Paperback]

Kirsten Lagatree (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 12, 1998

For centuries, people have relied on the power of feng shui, the ancient Chinese art of placement, to bring good luck and prosperity. Now, with this easy step-by-step guide to feng shui in the workplace, you can improve your chances for promotion, your financial success, and your relationships with colleagues and clients--just by rearranging your office furniture!
        With feng shui, subtle changes--such as the placement of your desk or the use of color in a room--can bring dramatic results. Feng Shui at Work offers easy solutions to common problems in the workplace. Learn to:

¸  use your professional goals to create personalized feng shui enhancements
¸  choose where you sit in a meeting to give you the most control and to gain support for your ideas
¸  jump-start your creativity by clearing energy-clogging clutter from your desk
¸  boost your corporate finances by adding a fish tank to the right place in your office
¸  use a desk lamp to reduce workplace stress--by balancing the yin and yang in your office
¸  improve your relationships with colleagues by moving your desk

        Bestselling author Kirsten M. Lagatree adapts the ancient rules of feng shui to the modern office with easy-to-follow tips for any workplace. Here are creative ideas for enhancing feng shui in a conservative corporate environment, ways to counteract problems resulting from too much electronic equipment, and tips for the home office. In clear language, she explains how to arrange every kind of work space--from cubicle to kitchen table--to put feng shui to work for you.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

From cramped cubicles to the Oval Office, the proper placement of office furnishings can make all the difference in achieving workplace goals. Whether you are a clerk or a CEO, Feng Shui at Work is flexible enough to be used in almost any office environment, from small home offices to downtown high-rises. Lagatree employs a contemporary method of feng shui and focuses on the things in your office that you can control to counteract the negative energies that may be beyond your power to change directly. Lagatree also stresses the importance of having a specific goal of improvement in mind when encouraging the energy flow in your office, which makes Feng Shui at Work more than just a guide to arranging your furniture but a path to establishing control over your work environment and, at the same time, yourself. --Brian Patterson

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For centuries, people have relied on the power of feng shui, the ancient Chinese art of placement, to bring good luck and prosperity. Now, with this easy step-by-step guide to feng shui in the workplace, you can improve your chances for promotion, your financial success, and your relationships with colleagues and clients--just by rearranging your office furniture!
        With feng shui, subtle changes--such as the placement of your desk or the use of color in a room--can bring dramatic results. Feng Shui at Work offers easy solutions to common problems in the workplace. Learn to:

¸  use your professional goals to create personalized feng shui enhancements
¸  choose where you sit in a meeting to give you the most control and to gain support for your ideas
¸  jump-start your creativity by clearing energy-clogging clutter from your desk
¸  boost your corporate finances by adding a fish tank to the right place in your office
¸  use a desk lamp to reduce workplace stress--by balancing the yin and yang in your office
¸  improve your relationships with colleagues by moving your desk

        Bestselling author Kirsten M. Lagatree adapts the ancient rules of feng shui to the modern office with easy-to-follow tips for any workplace. Here are creative ideas for enhancing feng shui in a conservative corporate environment, ways to counteract problems resulting from too much electronic equipment, and tips for the home office. In clear language, she explains how to arrange every kind of work space--from cubicle to kitchen table--to put feng shui to work for you.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Villard; 1 edition (May 12, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 037575010X
• ISBN-13: 978-0375750106
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #634,625 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #41 in Books > Business & Investing > Business Life > Health & Stress

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I can hardly wait to redesign my office for good feng shui!!, November 1, 1999

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Kirsten Hinsdale ([e-mail]) (US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Feng Shui at Work : Arranging Your Work Space to Achieve Peak Performance and Maximum Profit (Paperback)

Kirsten Lagatree's latest book, Feng Shui at Work, is a literary example of the ancient Chinese art of placement, with its beautiful illustrations and breezy, concise writing packed with meaning. I'll have to admit I approached the whole concept of feng shui--in which furniture, articfacts, plants, fountatains, lighting, etc.--are carefully selected and positioned to optimize abundance and success--with my jaded western eye askance. After reading, Feng Shui at Work, however, I'm a potential convert. This refreshing and uncluttered work gave me a great deal of insight into the many offices I've occupied over the course of a 30 year career, including a number that worked well for me and several that didn't. Could this have been feng shui at work? In the past, I've confined my efforts at office design to bringing in a couple of pleasing objects and focusing on them to the exclusion of whatever torture the corporate meanies might have in store for me in my particular Kafkaesque cell, then letting the papers fly where they may. Lagatrees's book made me aware that I can play a much more instrumental role in shaping my work environment--and potentially my work relationships THROUGH my work environment--by paying attention to where I put my desk and file cabinet in relation to doors and windows, planning the content of the art I place on my walls, and my use of color, light, wood, plants, water, small animal sculptures and other materials. I don't know that I buy the entire feng shui program as of yet--it's hard for me to believe, for instance, that poison arrows (bad feng shui, or sha-ga) fly down the long corridor outside my office ( although I will cop to observing a lot of loony behavior out there in the Hell Hall). However, I am definitely looking forward to spending an actual Saturday at the office resdesigning my dingy little windowless stuffy space to enhance the feng shui, which helps the flow of chi, or life energy. So. I'll put four deep purple irises in a crystal vase in the southwest corner, turn my desk diagonally to face the Northeast corner, to the left of the door, where I'll place a little onyx turtle. No one will know what I'm up to this time... unless, of course, they've read Feng Shui at Work.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Feng Shui at Work, March 17, 2000

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This review is from: Feng Shui at Work : Arranging Your Work Space to Achieve Peak Performance and Maximum Profit (Paperback)

Kirsten M. Langtree tells you how to arrange your work space for maximum peak performance and maximum profit. If you work in an office this is a must read, even if you are not a believer in Feng Shui. The author describes several typical work environments and how to make them more comfortable. If you are not familiar with Feng Shui (it's acupuncture or acupressure for physical spaces), Kirsten gives the reader a brief overview of the history and basic principals of this ancient Buddhist practice to start. She then goes into more details and mentions the two systems she uses. Apparently, there are several Feng Shui schools divided into the compass schools and Black sect schools. Kirsten uses a bit of both and I found this confusing. In fact, I find the compass issue a bit confusing and used the information from the Black sect perspective (stand at the doorway, look in placing the Ba-Gua's North side on the wall of the door). If you have not had any previous exposure to Feng Shui, you may not understand when she is switching back and forth between the two schools the book needs a clearer explanation on this.

Aside from these points, there is a lot of good information about office seating and arrangements that anyone could benefit from. I repositioned my desk after reading her section titled Desk for Success and found an immediate difference in my productivity. Her case studies were helpful and inspiring. Just reading this book gave me another perspective on space. I have visited a lot of clients in corporate offices and have found so many things about the cubicle environment disturbing. But Kirsten goes through a step-by-step process of offering tips to make these environments more humanizing. Some of her solutions to work space are intuitive yet reading this book you will be able to focus on details that you may miss.

Lastly, she gives her Feng Shui corrections for some famous persons' (read the book to find out) offices and why she makes the changes. The expereinced intuitive can learn something from this book as well as the novice. I you are wondering if this stuff works, it does!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Written in a way anyone can understand and act on., March 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Feng Shui at Work : Arranging Your Work Space to Achieve Peak Performance and Maximum Profit (Paperback)

It all makes sense. Karen Lagatree has written this book on "Feng Shai In The Workplace" in such a way that it not only keeps your attention but is still very understandable. Ms. Lagatree starts by explaining what feng shai is, what it can do in the workplace, the home and in ones personal life. I put it to work rearranging my office and within two hours got the interview I have been awaiting for two weeks. She even included cubicles, which was great. I thought, what can you do with a cubicle. She had great ideas that worked. Awesome book if you want any kind of prosperity.