The document discusses the challenges of personal email management, emphasizing the overwhelming nature of inboxes and the quantity of emails received daily. It proposes solutions such as utilizing techniques like 'inbox zero', timeboxing, and retraining coworkers on email etiquette to improve productivity. The author suggests prioritizing essential emails and using automation to manage workload more efficiently.

1. Riding the wave…
or caught in the undertow?
Personal Email Management

2. Day, n. A period of twenty-
four hours, mostly misspent.
- Ambrose Bierce

3. about me...

4. How large
is your
firm?

5. Where do you sit?
TransformationalOperational
Staff
Management

6. HOW MANY HH A DAY?
a
smattering
more than
my fair share
Et tu,
Brute?

7. How painful is your inbox?

8. What arrives?

9. Action Reference Trash
Why do we care?

10. Do we really
need it all?
in real time?

11. the
problem

12. So, how do we dig out?

13. Email
http://gawker.com/254608/

14. DMZ
www.43folders.com/2006/01/04/email-dmz
The

15. with extreme prejudice

16. Inbox Zero
inboxzero.com

17. Timebox

18. VIP Access

19. Automate!
http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2011/10/24/outlook-quick-steps-shortcuts.aspx

20. Only file things
you’ll actually need
to reference later.

21. Retraining your coworkers - tip #1:
http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/productivity/emailtips.aspx
These people need to do something
These people are being informed of something
This line should change as the thread changes
Value their time
...and they will value yours.

22. The Doctrine
of Completed
Staff Work
Retrain your coworkers - tip #2:
http://asq.org/pub/qualityprogress/past/0307/qp0307career.html

23. recap
own it
start fresh(ish)
reduce your intake
make exercising a priority
let the machines do some work
convince your coworkers to join a gym