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Introduction to inbox zero

Introduction to inbox zero

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Introduction to inbox zero

- [Instructor] The foundation of working in focused blocks of time is eliminating distractions. And there's no single distraction that's killing your productivity more than email. On average, people spend over six hours per day inside their email inbox. I'm sorry, but this is just horrifying if you are a creative professional. This maybe makes sense if you work in customer service and your job is to serve the needs of others. But if you're spending all day long doing your best to keep up with incoming emails, you eventually become the I Love Lucy sketch, where Lucy can't keep up with the chocolate on the conveyor belt. If you really want to escape your inbox and effectively manage communication with your team members, you're going to need a system. And that system, in my opinion, is Inbox Zero. In this lesson I'm not going to dive into the nuts and bolts quite yet. I'm just going to introduce you to some of the…

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