How Bill Gates works

If you look at his office, there isn't much paper in it. On his desk he has three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. He can drag items from one screen to the next.

Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

The screen on the left has his list of e-mails. On the center screen is usually the specific e-mail he is reading and responding to. And browser is on the right-hand screen. This setup gives him the ability to glance and see what new has come in while he is working on something, and to bring up a link that's related to an e-mail and look at it while the e-mail is still in front of him.