Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind

Dan Charnas

Rodale, May 3, 2016 - Self-Help - 304 pages

The first organizational book inspired by the culinary world, taking mise-en-place outside the kitchen.

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 Work Clean, 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.

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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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind
• Author: Dan Charnas
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Rodale, 2016
• ISBN: 1623365929, 9781623365929
• Length: 304 pages
• Subjects: Body, Mind & Spirit / Inspiration & Personal Growth; Business & Economics / Personal Success; House & Home / Cleaning, Caretaking & Organizing; Self-Help / Personal Growth / General