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Work Smarter, Rule Your Email
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Work Smarter, Rule Your Email

by Alexandra Samuel
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced
80 pages
1h 14m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Conclusion

What would it feel like to be totally on top of your email? How would it change your personal, family, or creative life if you knew you could go an evening or weekend without checking your inbox—and without worrying that you might miss something urgent? What projects could you conquer? What caliber of work could you deliver if you were relieved of the lion’s share of inbox triage?

If you fantasize about a work day that lets you tackle intellectually demanding work before you get sucked into the whack-a-mole of addressing incoming messages, plan an email routine in which dedicated email time is scheduled for after you’ve had a couple of hours of email-free, focused work. If you dream about being able to arrive at work each morning with ...

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ISBN: 9781422195154