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Without structure, it’s easy to allow your time to devolve into the shallow – e-mail, social media, Web surfing.
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227 |
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For most… an inbox full of messages generates a major sense of obligation.
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244 |
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The notion that all messages, regardless of purpose or sender,… deserve a (timely) response, is absurdly unproductive.
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247 |
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By putting more thought… [into] the e-mail messages that flit in and out of your inbox, you’ll greatly reduce the negative impact of this technology on your ability to do work that actually matters.
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253 |
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When it comes to e-mail… it’s the sender’s responsibility to convince the receiver that a reply is worthwhile.
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253 |
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E-mail, as wonderful as it is, creates a huge opportunity for others to put a negative spin on our words.
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198 |
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Both e-mail and meetings are critical to organization life, but too often they fall into the category of necessary evils…
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273 |
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To say we check email too often is an understatement; the reality is that we’re using these tools constantly.
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12 |
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By embracing email, we inadvertently crippled the systems that make us so good at working together.
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51 |
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Tools like email almost completely eliminate the effort required – in terms of both time and social capital – to ask a question or delegate a task.
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56 |
