The Hamster Revolution: How to Manage Your Email Before It Manages You (Bk Business)
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Entertaining and Packed with Practical Advice
This book is a great read. The authors have clearly taken their own advice in writing the Hamster Revolution. They have packed their story full of great practical tips and advice and presented it in an entertaining, engaging and very efficient narrative.Take this book with you on your next commute or plane trip - it will be the most productive ride you have had in a long time.
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Product Description
Is email taking over your life? Meet Harold, an HR director so overwhelmed by email he feels like a hamster on a wheel. Just in time, Harold meets a coach who shifts his focus from time management to a simple yet surprising new way to manage email.
The coach helps Harold conquer email overload, write incredibly effective messages, and get organized forever. Suddenly, Harold can find every file in a flash! Harold saves 15 days a year, reclaims his life, and propels his career to new heights.
The Hamster Revolution is packed with surprising strategies and powerful tech tips. It includes a landmark case study that shows how 2,000 Capital One associates each saved over two weeks a year. Now in its tenth printing, this best-seller is a must read for every busy professional.
Powerful, transformative ideas buried in cliche'
This book contains about three genuinely powerful, transformative ideas concerning the effective management of information as pertains to the dynamics of email.If the authors applied those ideas to the book they wrote about them, the actionable parts of the ideas would be expressed in a well structured bullet pointed page, perhaps with a chart, and perhaps followed by two or three pages of elaboration of the details, and perhaps three more pages of their conceptual basis.That makes about 21 pages.The remaining 110 some odd pages are chock full of every motivational speaker/business coach/corporate trainer's cliche', buzzword and artifice known to man, which can be irksome to the experienced reader of books of this type.All in all, the book is worthy, but if, like me, you're the type for whom the painted smiles and unnnaturally sustained exuberance of the corporate trainer rings false, be fully prepared to power skim about 100 pages to...
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