Working at Home Winter 1995-1996 Page 1

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When An Office Is Not a Place - But a State of Mind, Working At Home Magazine, June 2005.

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More on Paul Zane Pilzer

"Healthy, Wealthy... and Wired," by Lisa Cilva Ward, House of Business Magazine, April 2001.

"Master of the Deal: An Entrepreneur's Inside Story: How Paul Pilzer Made Millions Using Network Marketing," by Peg Varone, Success Magazine, June 1997.

"Young and Rich: Making a Million by 30," Dallas Life Magazine Dallas Morning News, May 27, 1984.

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A home-based local-area network: Every room is wired for the use of electronic equipment. Ever a pioneer, Paul Zane Pilzer has blazed a brilliant trail through many careers--economics professor, real estate developer, author, adviser to Presidents, entrepreneur. Now, from the mountaintop glass pentagon he calls home, he's breaking new ground with advice for all home-based businesses that is, as always, unconventional:

Don't draw a line between work and pleasure.
Don't separate your work from your family.
Don't set up an office in a separate room in your house.
And, to network marketers: Go high technology!

A Seamless Work-Play Weave
     Pilzer started working at home, from his New York City apartment, in 1976, after arranging to work nights as an economics professor at New York University and days as a vice president for Citibank. His desk and home looked out on the East River, and his computer required him to put his headset in a cradle that linked him into the Citibank mainframe. In the late 1980s, he progressed into airport industrial-park development. He also helped uncover the Savings-and-Loan crisis, wrote a book about it, and became an economic adviser to the Reagan and Bush administrations. In this decade, he is helping to create an industry of CD-ROM educational disks.
     His success has enabled him to build a dozen homes--in New York, Utah, and Texas, continually refining and updating his home-office concept. "Always assume that there's a better way now than the way you set things up last month," he says. "Allocate a specific amount of time to research communication and work technology rather than fall behind."
     Today, Pilzer's days are a seamless weave of work and play. A 41-year-old bachelor, he gets down to business at 7:00 a.m.--carrying his IBM Thinkpad around the 12 rooms of his 8,000-square-foot house in Utah. He zaps back the answers to the 100 to 150 electronic-mail messages he gets

daily from ZCI Publishing, Inc., his electronic publishing business in Dallas, and the 30 to 50 messages he gets from others.
     He breaks at 11:00 a.m. to depart for the ski slopes. During the 45 minutes the lift takes to get to the top of his favorite run, he makes private business calls on his cellular phone. Then, after hiking to the top and breathing in the crisp air, he skis down--"It requires total focus, or you'd kill yourself"--to have lunch with friends. In the summer, he rides his bicycle a couple of miles up the mountain. Totally refreshed, he heads back home, where he checks the replies to e-mail messages he's sent earlier; prints out telephone numbers; and, taking a phone with a 25-foot cord, climbs into a Jacuzzi that sits atop a cliff with a panorama of ski runs in the distance. There, he makes all of the callbacks that require a more extended amount of time--"I turn off the jets, so they won't know where I am."
     At 4:00 p.m., he knocks off work, watches the sun set over the Wasatch Range, and has dinner with friends or relatives, perhaps followed by a laser-disk opera on his large-screen theater or a game of pool. Sometimes the event of the moment will simply be the sights--a purple storm cloud advancing, a herd of elk poking their noses against the side of his three-story glass castle, the planet Jupiter climbing high into the sky. "I'm very involved with my brothers and their children and my cousins. Because I have large houses in nice places, I encourage them to visit," says Pilzer.
     As everyone cooks, talks, and plays, he may join in or sit off to the side, receiving and sending more e-mail. At some point during the evening, he will make a 15-minute conference call to his key managers in Dallas. He'll often break off from his business tasks to chat with his guests, finding their interest in his work energizing and inspiring. "There's nothing more rewarding than having your family and friends rooting you on: 'How did things go? How was that interview?' Once we get over thinking of work as a slave-factory job," he
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