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Category Archives: Email
Why Emergencies Should be Handled Outside Email
A few weeks ago, I visited The Bahamas and mentioned to a NewHabits-NewGoals class that it’s becoming clear that companies need a way to communicate emergencies outside of email. We had a discussion about the different reasons why email doesn’t … Continue reading
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Lessons from GMail’s Priority Inbox
You may have read my prior post on the reasons why GMail’s Priority Inbox doesn’t deliver on the promises it makes (even though it is a _very_ nice innovation.) If not, click on my article entitled: Why GMail Priority Inbox … Continue reading
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Why GMail Priority Inbox Won’t Work
It seemed like good news at first — GMail has come out with a new way of helping its users to manage their information overload using a handy innovation called Google Priority Inbox. Here’s what the GMail page describing the … Continue reading
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Is HR Doing Enough to Protect Worker Productivity?
Start with managerial anxiety. Add in some new technology in the form of smartphones. Toss in some employees that don’t know how to say no. Watch as bad habits develop around email, text messages, voice calls and IM’s. Or… perhaps… … Continue reading
The Productive Moron
I just published a provocative article over at the Stepcase Lifehack blog entitled “Are You Becoming a Productive Moron?” In the article I make a tongue-in-cheek prediction based on some of the behaviors I see today… the most simple-minded employees … Continue reading
The UnProductive Time Games that Employees Play
It happens in every company. Within a few months, the top notch recruit from one of the best schools joins in the time management games that their colleagues have been practicing for years, and before long they are operating at … Continue reading
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Outlook’s Shortcomings – Part 4
So far in this series, I have addressed the idea that Outlook could be improved by re-building it around the fundamental practices of time management. The fundamental, Emptying, is the most important one for many users, and it also could … Continue reading
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Outlook’s Shortcomings – Part 3
In my prior post I brought up the notion that Outlook was designed to solve user’s problems with email, rather than the bigger problem they have with time demands. I also mentioned that the company that understands this shift would … Continue reading
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Converting Email into Scheduled Items
Ever since I learned that I could take an email and immediately transform it to an item in my schedule with its own start and end time, I have engaged in the habit almost daily. In Outlook 2007 it’s a … Continue reading
New York Times Article on the Empty Inbox
An article in the New York Times that reiterates some of the points that I have made in this blog can be found here:An Empty In-box or With Just a Few Email Messages.The writer shares the practices he uses to … Continue reading
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