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Learn to use e-mail (and other technology) far more sparingly and with far less dependency. Don’t and you risk losing control of your life, emotional and physical burnout, workplace meltdowns, and unhappiness. That’s the argument John Freeman makes in his new book, The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox (to be published in October by Scribner). Here are some his thoughts as expressed in a recent Wall Street Journal article titled “Not So Fast”. Google Voice will shake up how you use phones. You get a free virtual phone number and calls to that number ring on up to 6 phones at the same time. Free long distance calls in the continental U.S. and lot of other free goodies. It is only available by invitation. Sign up to get on the list. I got an invitation about a week after signing up. Ever tried to convince someone to try something new? If so, you’ve probably also met someone who doesn’t want to try anything new. They are set in their ways and don’t want to listen to you. If you wait for people to change their own way of thinking, you may just go out of business waiting. Google may indeed have a crystal ball that lets you peak into the future. It may help you predict things like whether there’s a growing (or dying) market for a product or service. Or who is going to win a political race. And who knows what else. It may be able to do that faster and cheaper than other tools you might be using. Have you ever been involved in a project that seemed doomed to failure almost from the start? Yet it limped along painfully for months or years before someone had the courage to put a bullet in its head. If the horse is dead, get off it. The faster you get off the wrong horse, the faster you can find the right one. People won’t buy something until they understand it. It doesn’t matter whether it is a product, a service or an idea. You have probably come across people who refused to take action even after you clearly and concisely laid everything out for them. They just didn’t seem to get it. And, because they didn’t get it, [...] How you look at solving tax problems and solving financial problems may well determine what answer you’ll get – or whether you get one at all. This principle illustrates the importance of creativity in business and can contribute to collaborative team creativity. Consider this. Two people are riding bicycles. When they start, they are exactly 20 [...] |
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