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

"Simple but powerful. This is life-changing stuff."
--Chris Granger, Vice President, Team Business Development, National Basketball Association

"Our daily barrage of email not only consumes our time and energy but fills up our in-boxes with someone else's priorities. These simple tools will allow you to reclaim your life."
--Betsy Myers, Executive Director, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard University

"A must-read for every employee I supervise. You'll love it!"
--Richard L. Andersen, CFE, Executive Vice President, San Diego Padres

"Great stuff ! This book delivers simple and practical email management protocols."
--Paul Roithmayr, Director, Organization Development & Training, 20th Century Fox Film Corporation

"A clever way to add fifteen days to your year."
--Joe DiDonato, President, ESource Corporation

"A powerful new strategy for email efficiency and etiquette."
--Lamonte Thomas, Vice President of Sales and Customer Relations, Cigna

"These email practices will change the way you work."
--Matt Koch, Director, Productivity & Knowledge Management, Capital One

"A home run! Find time for what matters most. For example, taking your family to the ballpark!"
--Rick Mears, Vice President, Guest Services, San Francisco Giants

"Cut through email clutter and take control of your life!"
--Lisa Lelas, author of Simple Steps: 10 Weeks to Getting Control of Your Life

"A refreshing and humorous approach to reducing email overload. We use the insights every day."
--Steve Stone, CEO, Infoflows

"Simple and profound! I'm having my whole team read it."
--Mike Gugerty, Scientist, Matzinger-Keegan Inc.

"Put an end to needless emails and missing files."
--Sam Biegelsen, Business Development Executive, Jeppesen, a Boeing Company

"Easy to implement and powerful in results."
--Robert Cross, Assistant Professor of Management, University of Virginia and author of The Hidden Power of Social Networks

"Quick, easy, and fun to read--an effective antidote to the bulging, time- draining e-mailbox."
--Carol Metzker, coauthor of Appreciative Intelligence

"Using the techniques outlined in this book, we achieved significant productivity improvements, including a reduction of time spent on email averaging eight days per year per colleague."
--Nic Oatridge, Global Head of IT, Fortune 200 Pharmaceutical Company

"How is it possible that no one has written this book until now? This amazing guide will help you get off the email wheel!"
--Ruben Rodriguez, Senior Business Partner, Healthcare Industry

"Chock-full of ideas to address one of the biggest issues facing knowledge workers today--information overload."
--Cindy Domanowski, Vice President, Sales Training and Leadership Development,
Major Accounts, ADP, Inc.

"This step-by-step guide will free you from 'e-grip' forever."
--Garry Ridge, President and CEO, WD-40 Company

"Original and witty. There may be other books on email but this is the standout."
--Irene Sitbon, Executive Search Consultant, Bridge Partners, LLC

"Amazing! Email used efficiently is an incredible tool. This book certainly opened my eyes!"
--Michael A. Serchia, Director of Human Resources, Internation

Written in parable form, the work relates the story of Harold, an HR Director, who has fallen victim to thedreaded clutches of info-glut and finds himself paralyzed and unable to move forward because of the delugeof electronic data and e-mail he must fight daily. In a Kafka-esque twist, after such repetitive but fruitlessexertion, he actually turns into a hamster running on a hamster wheel, though he’s too busy to even notice.Harold meets the info-coach who recognizes his ailment and teaches him a few effective lessons aboutmanaging e-mail – key to which is developing higher quality while getting rid of unwanted excess. The infocoachintroduces the COTA system to Harold, which shows him an innovative way of storing all e-mail andelectronic media into four main categories:1. Clients2. Output3. Teams4. AdministrativeUsing this system Harold is able to control his e-mail communications and documents again, and turns backfrom a hamster into a human being.There is also the story of the groundbreaking Capital One study based on feedback and input from 2,000Capital One employees who attended a workshop by the authors. A 60-day post-training survey found e-mailquality to have improved by 52% while e-mail volume decreased by 21%. Capital One estimates that theparticipants saved an astounding 13 days per year because of this.All in all, the book provides a large amount of fun, but poignant information that can be used to reorganizeemail procedure into an efficient, and effective endeavor.