In the book, Bill recommends several resources and tools readers can use to deal with email overload. It's slightly ironic that one, Email 911, ceased operations in July because the proprietor needed to pare down the number of projects he was working on -- now that's simplification. But the other two tools still show promise:
In Fast Company, Sabrina Horn suggests that people schedule times when they check email -- instead of responding to them as they hit your in box. And leaders at Intel have developed 10 Commandments of Email to help people cut through the clutter.
How do you manage your email?
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November 10, 2003 at 6:41pm by J Austin
And what about those of us who have several different e-mail addresses - at least one at work and one personal (so we can respond to those Monster.com postings!) I think this is an important point, but at least e-mail management is something most people can decide on their own about. Meetings are an infinitely bigger time suck. I loved what Bill says in the book about whole days of one's life that are wasted in meetings that somebody called and sent invitations to the world in an attempt to call attention to themselves. It's a real problem.
Bill, this is one of the most important books I've ever come across. Don't let people be fooled by its simple design; there is excellent advice on almost every page. Thank you for allowing me to weigh in using this forum. I think this topic would be great for a Company of Friends meeting, as most of them devolve into a form of complaining about this issue anyway.