“I have been reading Productivity Today for some time and have found the articles and insight very effective not only for me personally but also in my business.  I have implemented some of the systems and strategies you suggest and have not only increased my efficiency but have also alleviated quite a bit of stress. [...]

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Do you think it more likely that someone would lie in an email than in a handwritten text? 
According to a recent study in the Journal of Applied Psychology, email is the more likely medium for people to convey lies.  In trying to analyze this, I recognize that a handwritten note is clearly identified with you.  However email messages [...]

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It seems media keep pointing to social networking as the place to be, resulting in a decreasing reliance on email.  Since prior complaints about productivity blocks concerned the amount of email with which we have to contend, that might be a positive thing.  But is it true?
Do not yet discount the importance of email in our lives.  A [...]

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If we all followed a common sense approach to email usage, productivity would jump and consequently so would profits.  The estimated cost due to email mistakes was calculated at $420,000 annually for companies with 100 employees, according to Debra Hamilton in her report, “Top Ten Email Blunders That Cost Companies Money.”
As simple as email is, [...]

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As soon as I finish typing this post, I am heading out to vote in Houston’s run-off primary for District Attorney of Harris County. Our recently resigned D.A., Chuck Rosenthal, was ousted, or outed, when his past years of emails were subpoenaed by defense attorneys in preparation for a trial.
Somehow the judge who granted [...]

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Can you imagine a day without email? Suppose the whole company banned managing email once a week on Fridays?
For most people, the first response is an immediate objection. In my time management seminars, even bringing up the idea of setting blocks of time each day for processing email vs. letting it interrupt you all day [...]

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A new program that has come to my attention is a solution for those struggling with email management. Speedfiler for Outlook provides an easy method to file both incoming and outgoing messages, if you are an Outlook user.
What I currently observe happening in my time management training seminars and when working with individual clients is [...]

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You see it everywhere, that constant checking of email. In the office, email is often allowed to intrude at any time throughout the day and is given priority over the current task. Outside the office space, those PDAs, like the Blackberry and Treo, pop up at meetings, lunches, soccer games, and even the dinner table. [...]

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Everyone struggles with the issue of spam. Fortunately spam filters have improved greatly, helping to limit the volume in individual email inboxes. In my own case, spam messages are blocked at two levels, one where the server keeps it from even accessing my email program and the other where Outlook sends it to [...]

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