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• How To: Stop Being a Slave to Your Email

  Published: August 27, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Advice, Email, Email Overload, Gtd, How To, Interruption Management

  under their email, but time management experts say there are ways to avoid feeling swamped. Getting Things Done author David Allen tells the Wall Street Journal you should take immediate action on any messages that require two minutes of your time or less. Other advice includes disabling new email alerts that interrupt your workflow and

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• Interruption Management: Why Proximity Kills Productivity

  Published: August 30, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Collaboration, Distractions, Interruption Management, Interviews, Office Culture

  to interrupt somebody. And interruption is the biggest enemy of productivity that there is. When everyone is sitting together, everyone's at the same desk or nearby. It's really easy to shout something over to somebody or tap someone on the shoulder or whatever. That can be useful at times, no doubt. But for the most part, it's interruption.One

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• Specify A Time To Return and Make Phone Calls [Interruption Management]

  Published: November 3, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Interruption Management, Interruptions, Phone, Phones, Work At Home, Workflow

  phone interruptions can break up even the most dedicated workflow. However, you can solve this by setting aside a specific time each day to return and make your calls. Productivity blogger John Cox has more: Folks will leave you messages. Return those messages at a set time. Try to say between 10AM and 11AM in the morning and 2PM and 3PM

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• Control Email Interruptions [Distractions]

  Published: November 5, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Distractions, Email, Interruption Management, Multitasking, Productivity

  offers up a Q&A about email management and our ability to multitask. Interestingly, email can stimulate creativity, to a point: Adam Cox, a clinical psychologist whose work focuses on the effects of multitasking and interruptions, said that when we receive work-related email messages, they often stimulate the prefrontal cortex of the brain, our

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