I Banned All Internal E-Mails at My Company for a Week - Forbes
I wish I could say I stated it boldly, chest puffed out and chin held high. Instead, I whispered it in a cowardly manner from behind the conference table as my team’s strenuous objections hurtled at me full force.“It’ll make my life miserable! How am I going to delegate to my assistant? I already have too much to do.”Once the panic cooled, we talked about why I wanted our company to return to the Dark Ages, before electronic communication. Here’s the case I made for why our business (and yours) could benefit from skipping a week of e-mail.In most companies today, internal email is half to three quarters of all traffic. Reading, processing, managing,
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