Written by Gina Trapani, smart as usual, at Harvard Business outlines some increases in productivity that could be achieved in case of an email outage (full article at http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/trapani/2009/09/turn-an-email-outage-into-a-pr.html).
My former boss taught me a lesson very important for me.
If you work on a computer, with everything “digital”, sometimes you “do” and you think (quite) at same time. This is not necessarily the most productive way to work.
Sometimes, especially when you need to express thoughts, concepts and ideas, is better to close PC, grab some sheets of paper and start writing down. Only after go back to PC and put everything in your favorite tool.
So I add one thing to Gina’s list: in case of email outage or (in an extended way, of no technology available), get back to your thinking and start working for a while without having the rush of making your work “digitally available” in minutes.
This post as a comment also at http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/trapani/2009/09/turn-an-email-outage-into-a-pr.html
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