Comments on: Herding Cats Project Management and Productivity

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By: Nania@sharp carousel microwave

Nania@sharp carousel microwave — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:53:24 +0000

I like you 4D method…My email is now like a wide jungle. I am trying to find how to clean it up without missing any important information. I think I can adopt your 4D method.
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By: Herding Cats Project Management and Productivity

Herding Cats Project Management and Productivity — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:49:17 +0000

[...] “Herding Cats” is an expression used often in Project Management. It refers to a task that is extremely difficult, or impossible, to do because of people, or variables, constantly in flux and uncontrollable. There is a popular EDS commercial on YouTube with modern “cat herders”. via richardmclaughlin.biz [...]

By: McLaughlin

McLaughlin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:16:48 +0000

One of the problems with email today is that someone can send you an email and assume that you will instantly read it. You do get it in your inbox reight away and people assume that you will act right away. When you are away from your mail, doing your real job, you can’t read email,, but often that is not considered an excuse.

Like you, I would not answer that “I need this by…” type mail unless it landed during the time that I was normally on mail. – Having said that, I used to be on call 24 hours a day. On call, by phone. I would answer a call at 2am and act on it, as that was a process that I put in place.

By: Andrew - GreatManagement Blog

Andrew - GreatManagement Blog — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:02:54 +0000

Nice!

When I worked in a large corporate, I only used to read my emails twice a day. Once at lunch time’ish and once just before going home.

The emails I hated were the ones that started “urgent…I need this by 2pm”

Then RING ME if its urgent you idiot!

Even if I saw the email and could respond before 2pm, I used to ignore it. Serves them right, I say!

Andrew
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By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:35:37 +0000

It is up to you to control your life, and all too often people let things like email take too much time. If you set up a process that works for you. I use the 4 D’s and kept myself off of email for most of the day so I could do my real job. I had people work for me that could not get off of email because they kept getting emails that were “too important” to miss.
The control part is up to you, as long as you have a system that works, stick with it.
This holds true for other side work too. If you are a writer and you spend your day answering phone calls at all hours of the day, find a way to group them in one chunk, do your real job (writing in this case) for many hours without interruption and then later in the afternoon get back on the phone.

By: Alex Nash@Dofollow Blogs

Alex Nash@Dofollow Blogs — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:54:14 +0000

sound’s interesting, but i didn’t get that CONTROLLING EMAIL factor, how it controls my email, do you mean it stops spam to enter into my in-box or only allows particular emails to come that are linked to my business strategies only.
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