"Getting off the email hamster wheel"

Even if Gil Yehuda's post were awful (it's anything but), I'd still want to blog it just for this title. We all complain about email but who does anything about it? OK, a few people (loud clearing of throat)...which prompts me to post this single slide about how to radically improve your use of email.

And, sugest that you read Gil's post where he reviews Mike Song, Vicki Halsey, and Tim Burress's book, The Hamster Revolution, apparently about information overload and, yes, email management.

Song et al's book, according to Gil's post, has some good tips, including this really simple one:

All emails have a Subject, Action, Background, and Close.  All meeting requests have Subject, Location, and Time (provided by the email client — e.g. Outlook, Notes, etc.)  as well as Objective, Agenda, Logistics, and Prep-work.

If only. Life would be so simple...and thanks, Gil. Great post. Our billboard messages on email:

 

Comments

[Gil Yehuda]

Thanks! And one of the best tips they have to make this work is to create a new templates (they show how) so that you don't have to remember all these great tips -- it becomes the natural, default behavior.