Archive for the ‘Required Reading’ Category

Loved my first read of Egan. It’s been sitting beside the bed for too long. The passage of time is incredibly fluid in this one – and a theme itself. Thought the .ppt chapter was indulgent and confusing. Didn’t do much for me.

The rest of the story was great. Well worth the read.

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I’m not a fan of email. Social is so much more immediate and conversational. And then there’s the phone. Seems like Dailmer is going after one of my habits – deleting vacation email. Good move.

I don’t understand the complaints on returning from vacation about a full inbox. Just delete it all. If it was that important, they’ll be back. Dailmer is going to do it in advance for their employees.

Atos, an international information technology company, plans to phase out all e-mails among employees by the end of 2013 and rely instead on other forms of communication. And starting in the new year, employees at Daimler, the German automaker, can have incoming e-mail automatically deleted during vacations so they do not return to a flooded in-box. An automatic message tells the sender which person is temporarily dealing with the employee’s e-mail.

The idea that this will somehow help employees lead balanced lives is right.

Employees, husbands, wifes… we all need to be encouraged to make healthy choices – it won’t always happen on its own. Entrepreneurial cultures are often high-growth and favor always on work practices. More established cultures tend to be less so. Either way the practices start with the manager setting boundaries. And the more common those boundaries are across the business, the more likely chance of them working for everyone.

I’m just looking forward to the day that email goes the way of the Fax.

Great moveI’m going to get this blog rocking again in 2013. Been to slow on the posts and not getting the posts I want to get up on the site.

I’ve also found I’ve been sharing more and more on Facebook and Twitter vs. here. That’s ok. But it isn’t a replacement for writing – which I miss. So, am going to start here and post there. Simple.

Just got my new Gunnar glasses – presecription lens this time. They are amazing. Definitely make working on the computer so much better and easier on the eyes. And the look fantastic. If you spend more than a few hours a day in front of a big screen, you should take care of your eyes and see better by getting yourself some.

Thanks to Andrea over at Gunnar for looking after me. Love them!

Brilliantly right – fatigue is the enemy:

In fact, it’s not the number of hours we work that determines the value we create. Rather, it’s the quality of energy; we bring to the hours we work. By renewing regularly, it’s possible to get more done, in less time, at a higher level of quality, more sustainably. When we’re less fatigued, we’re not only less prey to negative emotions, we’re also more likely to access the positive ones we need to feel to perform at our best.