Email Should Serve Not Disturb

By Tibor Shanto
On Tuesday I posted about how you can determine your success by how you start each day.  I had a few ask me why I seem to have cast e-mail as a villain, well mostly because it is.  E-mail is one of those good-news, bad-news beasts.  E-mail does deliver some clear-cut productivity benefits, but unmanaged, the gain comes at a greater loss.  Email should serve, not disturb.
There is no doubt e-mail has been a massive plus to the way we communicate.  Having had to rely on snail mail and then the greenscreen mainframe e-mails, I appreciate the improvement in communication.  But e-mail, in its current format, is less than 25.  We’re just beginning to understand how to deal with it and integrate into our lives.  Unfortunately, e-mail is winning the battle and is dragging us into e-mail world, where we are at a disadvantage.
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