Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #558809 in Books
• Published on: 1998-05-12
• Released on: 1998-05-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

From Amazon.com
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

About the Author
Kirsten M. Lagatree is the author of the bestselling Feng Shui: Arranging Your Home to Change Your Life and the co-author of The Home Office Solution: How to Balance Your Professional and Personal Lives While Working at Home.

Customer Reviews

Think I'll Give it a Try
I'm a skeptic but the way the author talks about feng shui makes me want to try it. She makes sense and gives explanations about how feng shui works that aren't so far out. I will try a couple of her suggestions because they are simple and I figure I don't have anything to lose.

Feng Shui at Work
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!

Surprisingly Helpful
I didnt know anything about feng shui until I read about it in the New York Times this week--and Lagatree's book was mentioned. No matter if you believe this stuff or not, this book is clearly and simply written. I'm sure there is more to feng shui than this--I'll check out her other book next. But I think she is onto something: some workplaces ARE more energized than others. There are offices that seem more conducive to getting things done. Feng shui makes sense to me--and by employing some of her suggestions I'm going to try it in my office and see if I can get better chi!