Mind your planners. (personal planners) (Special Section: Worksite)

Crain's Detroit Business | August 1, 1994| | Copyright

For many people, these systems are bibles in religion worshiping efficiency

Karla Babich had a horrible experience in the late 1980s.

"I lost October, November and December. I just sat by the phone and waited for people to call and ask why I wasn't at a particular meeting," said Babich, a consultant in internal organizational development at the Southfield office of Xerox Corp.

Her admitted exaggeration may not be that farfetched. She wasn't recovering from accident trauma, stress or amnesia -- she had lost her planner, a chunky binder laden with critical ...

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