Doesn’t it make you crazy when you send an e-mail to someone and never get a response? I’ve discovered that there are a number of reasons why this happens. It has very little to do with you, and all to do with them. Most people are just not very efficient e-mail managers. When I give talks on e-mail management, I ask, “How many of you have over 1,000 unread e-mails in your inbox?” Usually most of the attendees raise their hands!
Read more →This week, I’m delighted to have a guest writer for the first time! Francis Wade is the author of the new book Bill’s Im-Perfect Time Management Adventure, a charming novel about one man’s search to solve the puzzle of time management. —————————————————- Perhaps the biggest discovery shared in my new book, Bill’s Im-Perfect Time Management Adventure, is the idea that while we can’t actually manage time, we do manage “time demands.”
Read more →I did it on Friday night, and again on Saturday morning. I even did it again on Sunday! What did I do? I got my inbox down to zero. Yes, that’s right, zero e-mails in my inbox. And you can do it too! Here are my secrets.
Read more →I was an early adopter of the Blackberry. I was working for a large corporation when they came out, and as soon as I saw one of my colleagues with one and heard about it’s capabilities, I knew this was for me. I had just returned from a vacation and had been frustrated at being away from e-mail for a week. A few years later, I upgraded to the cell phone version of the Blackberry. I got rid of my low-tech personal…
Read more →Do you get e-mails from commercial web sites that you visited and inadvertently (or advertently) agreed to receive updates from? Tired of slogging through all that unwanted mail in your inbox so that you can find the messages that are truly deserving of your attention? Salvation is just a few clicks away.
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