Email Tips from the E-Universe, Part 2

The Inc. website generally offers useful tips on productivity. Since time management is critical component on productivity, you can find some practical email time management suggestions in Inc's "12 Email Tips to Increase Your Productivity" by David Finkel. 

Two of Finkel's gems you've got to like: 

1. Understand that every time you do that one "quick" email, that interruption radically diminishes your concentration and flow on the other, higher value work you were doing.
2. To get less email, send less. 

The other standard suggestions are also good reminders: 

• Turn off your auto send-and-receive function.
• If you're involved in a frustrating back-and-forth conversation by email due to hazy understanding on either side, just pick up the phone or speak in person.
• In replying to a long conversation thread, pull up the key information to the top of the email.

If we took such advice, Inc. wouldn't be giving it.