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Chefs across the globe have honed an incredible system for working with efficiency called mise-en-place. In this audiobook, Dan Charnas reveals how to use those principles in any kind of work outside the kitchen.

Work Clean spells out the 10 major principles of mise-en-place, or "putting in place", for chefs:

1) Preparation is prime
2) Arranging spaces
3) Cleaning as you go
4) Making the first moves
5) Finishing actions
6) Slowing down to speed up
7) Call and callback
8) Open ears and eyes
9) Inspect and edit
10) Total utilization

One by one Charnas shows how applying each of these principles at the office and at home creates a simple system for organizing your life, work, and mind.

Reviewer: Juan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Surprisingly good
Review: I didn't think it would be THIS good. Well written, but most importantly very practical, actionable advice on getting excellent work done. And having read lots of business books, still some new nuggets I hadn't heard of.The final section has a whole system on how to implement everything, but just the principles themselves applied to whatever system you have are helpful.

Reviewer: Cameron Peterson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: One of he best books on organization and time management I’ve ever read. And I’ve read a lot.
Review: I’ve had inklings that preparation and process and presence would make my life more enjoyable. I’ve dabbled in preparing everything I need the night before for the next day and breathed in the calm I feel when I wake the next morning and execute. This book condenses a lifetime of lessons I could’ve spent the next 40 years developing into a well written story and life approach. This book will influence me for the rest of my life. I’ve been searching for something like this for the last 15 years or so.

Reviewer: Carolleegail
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Plan then do, always
Review: Really did a good job of breaking down the thought processes and practices of miesen place to other work aspects of life

Reviewer: chelsea berschback
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Dan Charnas is a great storyteller.
Review: I have now read 2 books by the author, Dan Charnas. He does a great job of telling a story that is backed with research while still feeling like he's talking to friends rather than lecturing about a topic. Work Clean was fun to read both as a foodie, as well as someone who can always use a little help organizing my life and my routines. Totally recommend this book.

Reviewer: Robert
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Tried systems like GTD? This is the next stage in your evolution
Review: I was a little skeptical of the whole "How working like chefs can you make you more productive and effective" type-approach, but by a few chapters in I realised I had to finish the whole thing in one go and takes notes.Here's the deal:If you're frustrated with the lack of progress you're making towards goals in your life, but you think you've tried it all using the GTD workflow, habit apps, or "time blocking", then I urge you to give this book a try. I've been frustrated with all of those methods.GTD workflow and apps had me ticking off lots of little tasks but not making any real progress with my big goals. Habit apps are great, but predictable and daily habits like exercising or drinking water don't contribute to big and unpredictable goals related to business and your career. "Scripting your day" or "time blocking" CAN be great if you've already competent and clear on what you should be doing and how long it takes and have minimal distractions; however that's not a complete and holistic system in and of itself. Every time I've tried scripting my day it was a failure either because the time blocks were too specific, too vague, or to ill-prepared in advance.This book helps you reconcile all of these different problems. "Working clean" isn't just a productivity system. It's a philosophy and approach to being effective that includes rules, sequencing, habits, and systems that bring clarity and flow to your work. It stops me from running around in a blind panic ticking off menial tasks OR following an unrealistic schedule. Both of these behaviors always made me feel miserable at the end of the day when I realised I had made no real progress on anything of big importance.I strongly recommend you give the book a try if you've had similar challenges in your work.

Reviewer: Joan E. Strassmann
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Cooking part is fun, life advice banal
Review: It is fun to read about the kitchens and the chefs. The lessons for life seem banal, outdated, or for only the least intellectual of careers. The mis en place metaphor is stretched too far. The preachy tone is annoying. I found it annoying that he called meat protein. The real point is to be organized with a system that works for you, not necessarily his. Also book is very male biased. Don't buy it. There are better books about kitchens.

Reviewer: Dogson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Life Changing
Review: As an artist who's often all over the place, and a fan of books like "Do The Work!" by Stephen Pressfield and "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron, yet, those books never quite broke through the barrier many creative people feel, of having too many ideas, being unsure of what direction to take, or the ever looming internal editor that tries to reconcile profit motive with pure inspiration. This book levels all those concerns with one concept: a clean workstation.The concept of mise en place is well known within the culinary world, but still the best kept secret outside of the kitchen. It's not just a process of arranging your kitchen, it's a way of life. Imagine being able to reduce all your clutter (mental and physical) to the bare minimum with one technique. Imagine being able to find, within yourself, everything you're good at, and maximize the potential until you're the best in the world at that stuff. This is the book and the technique which can do that. Mise En Place is a way of organizing all your thoughts, items, schedule, meetings, to-do, into one extremely focused system. You think about it once, you do it every day slightly better than yesterday, and soon you have a Michelin-star operation going, whether you're in the Private Equity space or a painter or a car detailer. I owe my life to this book in a very real sense. It brought out my potential like nothing else has. If I could give it 1 million stars that wouldn't be enough. This author deserves the Nobel prize for bringing what was once a very occulted kitchen-only process into the mainstream.

Reviewer: stingray
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Love the concept and seeing in practice was fascinating.
Review: I like his approach to the concept of mise -en-place and Sushi chef using the technique of cleaning as you cook. Truth be told I skipped a lot of the parts -a little boring and not to the points. But the ideas are great front burners versus back burners and actions are sincerely sequence.

Reviewer: nemo
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Nice idea to see how high performing chefs work. Becomes repetitive, could be summarised. Most is common sense anyways.

Reviewer: Nancy Juozapavicius Catarino
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: As ideias são práticas e aplicáveis de 8mediato. Talvez se estenda um pouco nas histórias, mas isso não atrapalha. Recomendo às pessoas que, como eu, tem questões com organização. Espero que haja em breve uma versa9 em português para os que não leem em inglês. (Estou à disposição - risos)

Reviewer: Ksenia
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Great book! I recommend it to everyone who wants to start working in a new, better, more organized way from the day one. Easy to follow tips, great author work - you just don’t want to stop reading.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I found this book really interesting and an useful for modifying my own work flow. While the app is disappointing the book is actually really good.

Reviewer: JM Scotland
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Don't where to start here, but I love this book. Deep, detailed research converted into simple can implement today action plans. I've been testing out the concepts in my workflow within video production and found it highly motivating as well as useful. It's relevant to both working solo and within a team. I think this book will be a very useful handbook to people running their own business in both service or product production. As well as being useful, it's entertaining to read full of colourful examples and stories based on real world scenarios. Highly recommend, be prepared to be both inspired, entertained and leave this book with an action plan you can actually start implementing daily. It's in my top five of favourite books and I'm a book addict.