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Coaching for Leaders

119: How to Get Control of Your Email, with David Sparks

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2013

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

David Sparks: MacSparky

Author of Email* and Paperless
Co-Host of the Mac Power Users podcast

David and I speak about his new book Email and how we can use more effective workflows and planning to take control of email. You’ll find his perspective helpful for considering actions you can take with your email.

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0:00.0

Has email taken over your life?

0:03.0

If you're like me, it certainly can often.

0:06.0

Today, how to get control of email.

0:09.0

This is Coaching for Leaders, Episode 119.

0:12.0

Produced by Innovate Learning Leaders, Episode 119.

0:13.0

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

0:18.0

Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm

0:26.7

your host Dave Stahovia. This is a weekly coaching show to help people be better leaders through improved communication,

0:36.7

human relations, and personal productivity, all the things that have to do with people

0:42.4

and being able to influence people effectively

0:45.2

and today's topic is one that hits a whole bunch of those those topics communication

0:52.0

human relations productivity even technology

0:55.5

email boy you know email you know email used to be a lot of fun and email has become

1:00.1

work and overwhelm for a lot of us.

1:03.0

I have seen studies with numbers as high as us spending 25% of our professional time now,

1:10.0

literally on email, answering email, composing email, reading email, and so email has become

1:17.5

something that we all need to manage and some of us have figured out some ways to manage it pretty well.

1:24.0

And today's guest is someone who's really done some great thinking on that.

1:27.8

And my guest David Sparks is gonna really

1:31.1

provide us with some new thinking on an email that I know will get you

1:34.2

thinking a little differently about how you look at your inbox. Before I

1:37.5

introduce David, I want to mention at the end of the show I've got an

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