Turn It Off | A new book from Gil Gordon

Have you had your evening or weekend interrupted one time too many by your pager, or by having to check your voice mail or e-mail messages?

Do you get the feeling that your days are slipping into your nights, and your work weeks are slipping into your weekends?

Have you forgotten what it's like to make it through an entire day without sending or replying to any kind of electronic message, signal or beeps and rings?

If so, you've come to the right place.

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Welcome to the site for my new book TURN IT OFF: How to Unplug from the Anytime-Anywhere Office Without Disconnecting Your Career. As you'll learn elsewhere on this site, this book is the first of its kind - the first book that helps you understand and deal with the unexpected effects of today's wonderful mobile-office technologies. See the publisher's news release about the book here.

This site, like the book itself, isn't intended to get you to stop working at 5 p.m. sharp and to limit your work week to forty hours. That would be nice, but it's probably not feasible for most of us. Instead, the book is about the way in which our lives are being affected by the disappearance of the boundaries that used to clearly exist between work and the rest of our lives.

It's up to you to decide whether, and how, you want to re-establish those boundaries. If you do, and you want a practical, sensible approach to regain part of your life without jeopardizing your job or your career, then this site and book are for you.

Thanks very much for visiting. I welcome your comments and suggestions about the book, about this site, and about the general topic of the spillover of our work into our lives.

Meet the TURN IT OFF Poster Boy

Here's my friend Philip with a copy of the book at a recent Barnes & Noble book signing I did. He says he promises that he won't get overtired because he's overwired when he's older.

NEW! During a media tour in the San Francisco area in early June, I taped some "man on the street" interviews with veteran KPIX TV reporter Bill Schechner. I don't have the video available but you can get an idea what happened by viewing these photos . Also, I invite you to listen to my interview about TURN IT OFF on "The Business Prescriptions" radio program (streaming audio).

The book is now available at Amazon.com and other online bookstores, and should be available in traditional bookstores as well. If you don't find it on the shelves please ask the store to stock it. so you'll have your copy shipped as soon as it is in stock.

NEW! QUANTITY DISCOUNTS: Want to TURN IT OFF and save money at the same time? Volume discounts for as few as 20 copies are available from the publisher; discounts start at 20% and go up to 53% depending on quantity ordered. Contact me for details.

TURN IT OFF is also being published simultaneously by Nicholas Brealey Publishing for sale outside of the US and Canada. You can pre-order the book at the Amazon.com UK site or place your order with the publisher.