As mentioned before, the task of comparing one worker to another in terms of their productivity has become much harder.
However, the results of examining their in-box can give a good insight into how productive they are. In other words, a person who has an in-box of thousands of items is less productive than one who maintains less than 10 at any time.
(If you are immediately offended by this assertion, then stay tuned…)
What is the reasoning behind this statement?
To put it simply, a “full” in-box is a sign of very low mastery of the 2Time fundamental components.
But, what is the problem with having 100 or 1000 or 10,000 email items in an in-box? Is it even a problem worth considering?
Yes, it’s a problem and here is why. Contained in that in-box is a combination of different time demands:
- stuff that should be deleted without reading
- items that should be deleted after reading them once Continue reading “Professional Un-productivity”