Do you love your e-mail? Come on, it’s just the two of us. Do you really?
How much of it do you receive? How much do you actually read?
What started out as a promising productivity tool over 20 years ago has grown wildly out of control and now bobs on the tides of abuse that are so prevalent today.
A once-great time-saver now threatens to choke off and suffocate the very people it was supposed to help liberate.
This is especially true in the corporate environment, where e-mail is like that boulder in Raiders of the Lost Ark, steadily gaining on Indiana Jones as he runs through a tunnel with no escape.
The time has come for bold change. And I recently witnessed something that gives me hope. We just need the right leadership.
Postal mail was great, though slow.
Speed was why I loved e-mail, but over the last decade, the trade-offs for its convenience have mounted, and I now found myself spending five to six hours every working day just reading, filing, moving, responding to, moving again, writing and sending e-mail messages.
We are now plugged in 24/7 to all of our messaging streams.
Woe to you if you go on vacation without access to them.
The most common complaint I hear when people return is “I am still digging out of hundreds of messages!”
Having entered our lives innocuously, e-mail now has mutated into something with multiple means of preventing us from doing our jobs.
And I’m not even talking about spam.
For one, it has evolved into the corporate file share.
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Do you love your e-mail? Come on, it’s just the two of us. Do you really?
How much of it do you receive? How much do you actually read?
What started out as a promising productivity tool over 20 years ago has grown wildly out of control and now bobs on the tides of abuse that are so prevalent today.
A once-great time-saver now threatens to choke off and suffocate the very people it was supposed to help liberate.
This is especially true in the corporate environment, where e-mail is like that boulder in Raiders of the Lost Ark, steadily gaining on Indiana Jones as he runs through a tunnel with no escape.
The time has come for bold change. And I recently witnessed something that gives me hope. We just need the right leadership.
Postal mail was great, though slow.
Speed was why I loved e-mail, but over the last decade, the trade-offs for its convenience have mounted, and I now found myself spending five to six hours every working day just reading, filing, moving, responding to, moving again, writing and sending e-mail messages.
We are now plugged in 24/7 to all of our messaging streams.
Woe to you if you go on vacation without access to them.
The most common complaint I hear when people return is “I am still digging out of hundreds of messages!”
Having entered our lives innocuously, e-mail now has mutated into something with multiple means of preventing us from doing our jobs.
And I’m not even talking about spam.
For one, it has evolved into the corporate file share.
Are you absolutely sure you want to delete this article? This process cannot be undone and is permanent.
Yes, Delete This Article
Are you absolutely sure you want to remove this article? This process cannot be undone and is permanent.
Yes, Remove This Article
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