Comments on: Leaning on e-mail http://yworking.com/technology/leaning-on-e-mail/ generation y is at your service. sort of. Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:01:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Matt @ Corporate Hack http://yworking.com/technology/leaning-on-e-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Matt @ Corporate Hack Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:37:35 +0000 http://yworking.com/technology/leaning-on-e-mail/#comment-41 To edit... that one line should have read: "I also hate meetings - they're generally not efficient". To edit… that one line should have read: “I also hate meetings – they’re generally not efficient”.

]]> By: Matt @ Corporate Hack http://yworking.com/technology/leaning-on-e-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Matt @ Corporate Hack Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:35:58 +0000 http://yworking.com/technology/leaning-on-e-mail/#comment-40 Hey Matt - So glad you shared this as this is a topic I'm particularly passionate about. I resonate 100% with your thoughts here. First off, gotta check out GTD - it's changed my life @ work... there are tons of overviews of GTD, but we wrote one on our blog here: http://thecorporatehack.blogspot.com/2008/03/gtd-101-brief-overview-of-getting.html Second, totally agree with your thought's and like Joost's reply. I agree that we need to be smart about the way we write and construct our emails, but I would much rather have 30 emails hit my inbox than 1 voicemail. I hate voicemail - it's completely inefficient. I also hate meetings - they're generally more efficient. If I can take care of something in three minutes worth of emails over the course of a couple hours, it totally beats a 30 minute meeting or a rambling phone conversation. I don't at all mind interacting with people one-on-one, but we're all busy, so lets make sure we're using that one-on-one time wisely and appropriately. Hey Matt – So glad you shared this as this is a topic I’m particularly passionate about. I resonate 100% with your thoughts here. First off, gotta check out GTD – it’s changed my life @ work… there are tons of overviews of GTD, but we wrote one on our blog here: http://thecorporatehack.blogspot.com/2008/03/gtd-101-brief-overview-of-getting.html

Second, totally agree with your thought’s and like Joost’s reply. I agree that we need to be smart about the way we write and construct our emails, but I would much rather have 30 emails hit my inbox than 1 voicemail. I hate voicemail – it’s completely inefficient. I also hate meetings – they’re generally more efficient. If I can take care of something in three minutes worth of emails over the course of a couple hours, it totally beats a 30 minute meeting or a rambling phone conversation.

I don’t at all mind interacting with people one-on-one, but we’re all busy, so lets make sure we’re using that one-on-one time wisely and appropriately.

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