As Karen walked to her office, her boss intercepted her in the hallway with a question. “Where is the new timeline for the Jenkins project?” “Ugh…”, Karen thought. She was supposed to have given her boss the revised timeline for a client project last Friday. Today was Tuesday. After apologizing for her lateness and promising … What to Do if You’re Working Reactively and Wasting Time—and Want It to Stop

  You know how much time it takes to try to stay on top of email, but you may not realize the enormous amount of time and energy that are wasted if you’re using one, two or all three of the most common practices for dealing with it. These practices were born from the fact … What You Don’t Know Can Hurt Your Productivity When Managing Email This Way

Two opposing arguments exist for managing the email Inbox: let email accumulate or get it out of the Inbox. For those who want to keep email in the Inbox and use searches to find what they need, it’s important to understand why having MORE email in your email Inbox makes you LESS efficient, LESS effective … Why an Overloaded Inbox Wastes Time and Works Against You