Toxic e-mail habits have diffused the importance of daily planning, a key component of time management. People allow the delivery of new messages to continually interrupt and impose on their … Continue reading Email has obliterated people’s daily planning efforts. How ’bout you?
Leaving e-mail messages you have already read in your inbox is just as counter-productive as leaving old mail in the box at the end of your driveway. Yet people routinely … Continue reading The Case for Emptying Your Inbox – EVERY time!
Too many people confuse sorting e-mails and handling e-mails as one task. They are not. To be most effective at managing your inbox, it is important to understand and embrace … Continue reading The Difference between “Sorting” and “Working” e-mail
Technology is great. There have been so many advancements that make things so efficient, effective, and yes, inexpensive. I still think that the advent of the e-mail is one of … Continue reading Are you “married to your office?”
This AOL survey has given us a lot of fodder for comment and humor. But there is one statistic that has nothing funny about it. 50% of the respondents admitted … Continue reading Driving while Texting (DWT): You are putting yourself at risk.
AOL’s recent study has affirmed to me a lot of what I’ve suspected. 38% of the people in the survey have checked their e-mail in a business meeting. This does … Continue reading Is checking e-mail during business meetings career suicide?
I am troubled by the findings of AOL’s recent email addiction survey. While almost all US citizens check their email frequently, this new research shows that a significant percentage of … Continue reading AOL Email Addiction Survey is Frightening!
Believe it or not, one of the questions that we frequently receive has to do with how can we tell one of our dearest friends that we really don’t need … Continue reading How to get a close friend to take you off his or her joke list… (no joke!)
I am always amazed when I see someone composing a very detailed and complex e-mail on a subject that would be much more appropriately discussed. Are people hiding behind e-mail? … Continue reading Discuss, THEN Confirm
Just hadda share this… I just received an email from one of my clients with this great comment incorporated into the autosignature. I hope you consider adding it. And… please … Continue reading Greening Your Email Signature
What is SO hard about turning it off??? This is NOT rocket science. But it IS personal control. Given all of the email you receive daily, perhaps it is difficult … Continue reading What is SO hard about turning it off???
