Life Of E's

Book Recommendations – Email Hurst, Mark.  Bit Literacy:  Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload. I have been buying this book in large quantities and have now used it in several workshops and have given it to many of my consulting clients.  Not only do I love the way this guy writes (he’s very [...]

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Jensen, Bill. The Simplicity Survival Handbook: 32 Ways to Accomplish Less and More. Are you kidding me? How could I not buy this book? And, I loved it even though I disagreed with portions of it. I gained a number of very useable ideas and appreciate the author’s irreverent style. He is pushing hard to [...]

Tags: Bill Jensen, email, email management, email simplicity, simplicity

Sherwood, Kaitlin. Overcome Email Overload: Get Through Your Electronic Mail Faster. I wish she would update her books, but essentially, Microsoft Outlook 2000/2002 hasn’t changed much with the newer versions. She has a plethora of ideas that I have put into practice. If you use Eudora, she also has a version for that software. VERY [...]

Tags: email management, email overload, Kaitlin Sherwood

Hallowell, Edward, CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Handling Your Fast-Paced Life. The title alone is probably intriguing to you – and once you read it, you will have a new perspective on whether your life is CrazyBusy and if that’s the way you want to keep it.  Hallowell, who has studied [...]

Tags: book review, crazy busy, Edward Hallowell, overbooked, overstretched

Kossek, Ellen Ernst & Lautsch , Brenda A.  CEO of Me. I read this book in preparation for a day-long workshop I was going to be doing at Michigan State University as part of a symposium on Work-Life Balance.  The first author was one of the symposium presenters. This book is fabulous and I’ve bought at [...]

Tags: book review, Brenda A. Lautsch, CEo, Ellen Ernst Kossek

Song, Mike; Halsey, Vicki; & Burress, Tim.  The Hamster Revolution:  Stop Info-Glut–Reclaim Your Life. Although the use of a hamster as the main character throughout this book is a tiny bit irritating, the book itself is excellent.  You just have to ignore Mr. Hamster.  These authors have done extensive research on how to increase productivity [...]

Tags: email management, hamster revolution, Mike Song, Tim Burress, Vicki Halsey

 Braiker, Harriet. The Disease to Please. Dr. Braiker’s first book (that I read) was The Type E Woman (for the woman who tries to be everything to everyone). Let’s just say I found a few tidbits in there for myself and for others I knew. So when this particular book came out, I bought it [...]

Tags: book review, disease, disease to please, Harriet Braiker, people pleasers

Shipley, David & Schwalbe, Will.  SEND:  The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home. Much of what’s in this book is common sense…at least one would think so.  However, a good portion of what the authors share clearly isn’t being demonstrated as common sense or common practice up to this point.  Read this book [...]

Tags: David Shipley, email guide, email management, Will Schwalbe

Buckingham, Marcus. GO Put Your Strengths to Work:  6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance.. Marcus Buckingham is the face of the strengths movement.  His earlier books that he wrote while with the Gallup Organization helped propel him to rock star status.  Plus, he’s a fabulous speaker and communicator and thinker (and yes, he’s handsome, [...]

Tags: book review, GO, Marcus Buckingham, strength, strengths

Morgenstern, Julie. Never Check E-Mail in the Morning (And Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work). Morgenstern originally published this book under the title: Making Work Work, and then realized that the provocative phrase “Never Check Email in the Morning” would make her book fly off the shelves. It should fly off the [...]

Tags: email, email management, Julie Morgenstern