I enabled the Clutter function in Outlook and OWA about a month ago. It uses artificial intelligence to puts mass emails and emails that you don’t usually open into a new Outlook email folder called Clutter. It works well. It’s been better than most Junk mail filters at deciding what to remove from my Inbox….
Category: Productivity
Strategy in Company Location and Technology Choice (or Non-Choice)
I occasionally look at classified ads of companies seeking employees. In a large number of them, two things stick out as compromising the productivity and competitiveness of firms. Small decisions or non-decisions that lead to failing to change, add up. First is location. Are you going to get creative employees if you’re located in an…
Pants and Soulcraft
I was enjoying the audiobook The Year Without Pants so much that I was hoping it would never end. Despite that, when about halfway through Pants, I began trying to decide between two books to listen to next. I was really torn between two. Seemingly serendipitously, as I finished the last few minutes of Pants,…
If you get too much email, maybe you should spend more time WRITING each email
If you concentrate on writing clearly and concisely, when it’s your role to weigh in, to only the people who need that information, you and your co-workers will get less email. When someone multi-tasking fires off an unclear email to 8 people, that will often generate 10 more emails rather than settle a matter as…
A Few Reasons Why I Hate Texting
I hate texting for the below reasons. This opinion is, admittedly, out of the main stream. I thought I’d document and explain. Everyone I communicate with has email to their phone. Email has many more capabilities. Most people lose their text archive when they get a new phone. I’m sitting here next to my computer happily typing…
Entrepreneurial Office Supply Extremism
One of the things about working for and with small businesses is that you have to do almost everything yourself. This morning when I was trying to print out a contract to sign, the ink ran out in my printer right before it printed the signature page. Of course the client needed it signed and…
Where Do People Find the Time…Cognitive Heat Sync
I’m not much for link-blogging but I can’t get Clay Shirky’s speech out of my mind.