How many emails did you get today? What number of them were useful—and how many were a waste of your time? If you’re like most people, the answer to the first question is “a lot” and the answer to the last one is “a lot” too. In fact,...
Arianna Huffington has implemented a new rule at her wellness company Thrive Global to ensure employees can fully unplug while on vacation: she deletes their incoming emails. Any emails that an employee receives while on vacation will automatically get deleted and senders will receive an automated message. "While you’...
The No. 1 question I’m asked in interviews or coaching sessions is to list the top productivity apps I recommend for [insert problem here]. But here’s the trick: the best app for me could be the worst one for you. I love reading and writing, and am speedy...
Once every quarter, the employees at LaSalle Network turn off their inboxes. What started off as a one-day experiment to help reduce misunderstandings that often come through text communications yielded such great results that the company decided to make the practice a permanent part of culture. The Terms: * Rotate through...
We wanted to start the year off on a positive note while finding a way to maintain that motivation and momentum throughout the year. That's when we came up with 52 Notes -- every week of 2017 we will send out an email with a note from our...
I’m in another one of my Destroy to Create experiments, and this one’s about switching my email client from Mailplane 3 to Airmail 3 -- and getting back down to a true Inbox Zero. I’ve been using Mailplane 3 for over a year, and it’s plenty...
