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    The Hamster Revolution: How to Manage Your Email Before It Manages You
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    The Hamster Revolution: How to Manage Your Email Before It Manages You

    By Mike Song, Vicki Halsey and Tim Burress

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    About this ebook

    Offers an easy-to-implement solution to a problem--e-mail and information overload--that plagues millions of people
    • Draws on the authors' extensive experience working with major corporate clients
    • Includes a real-world case study of how the principles in the book were implemented at Capital One

    Do you spend so much time dealing with e-mails--reading them, writing them, responding to them, responding to responses--that you feel like you're just going round and round and getting nowhere? Meet Harold, an HR director so overwhelmed by email he feels like a hamster on a wheel. Just in time, Harold meets a coach--a leading expert on email efficiency and etiquette with a simple system that helps Harold eliminate needless emails, write better messages, and file and find information in a flash. He gets immediate results--and reclaims his life.

    This delightful and much-needed fable is based on the authors' extensive experience helping employees at companies like Clear Channel, Procter and Gamble, and Pfizer manage e-mail more efficiently. The book includes a remarkable case study of the authors' work with Capital One, where employees estimated they saved thirteen days a year by applying Hamster Revolution techniques. This book is perfect for time-starved professionals eager to restore balance and order to their busy lives.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBerrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
    Release dateMay 19, 2008
    ISBN9781605099026
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    • 4/5
      Simple, but powerful message. Common sense that isn't so common. The first book of this type that recognizes that although change begins with "me", because we are interconnected, real change is only possible by working with others.
    • 5/5
      Time to stop complaining about email fatique. The Hamster Revolution, by Mike Song, Vicki Halsey, and Tim Burress, contains stress-reducing tips, and the ones I've started using this week are:1. Creating a template: The most wonderful emails get to the point and end quickly. The template in the book can be tailored for personal use, and, already, I've used it several times.2. Joining the AAAAA (The American Association Against Acronym Abuse): No matter how commonly known I think an acronym is, someone will eventually get confused. Now I spell them out.3. Avoiding excessive punctuation: This is one of my big sins -- writing a sentence with too many exclamation points!!!!!!4. Writing clear subject lines: Not only does a vague subject frustrate, it bores, and confuses. 5. Matching the subject lines to the content: From now on, I promise that when I hit the reply or forward button to start a new topic, I will also write a new subject line. Always.