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A productivity method called ‘Inbox Zero’ by Merlin Mann, a productivity hacker and creator of many other productivity tools like 43 folders, became a rage in 2007. It was based on the fact that all email should be answered or categorized until the inbox has zero emails left.
While sounding great, this personal productivity method actually increased a person’s email, leading to a circular path of pseudo-work: replying to the endless email.
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As offices got shut down all around the world, all the inefficiencies in the present systems and the haphazard work models got amplified.
The humble inbox became a repository of everything that is pending, with many not even knowing what all needs to be done, leading to overload an...
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Various organizational tools, production methods and other ways towards efficiency appealed to the logical mind, but slowly it dawned to many that the basic concept of these systems were the industrial processes themselves, and just a reusing of repetitive, mechanical motions, repackaged for know...
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Most productivity methods do not address a fundamental problem: How work actually unfolds in an organization.
They essentially limit themselves by seemingly providing a great organizational tool to an individual, not taking into account the cumulative nega...
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In the 1950s, work shifted from being labour-intensive towards being mind-intensive and eventually started to overload people’s cognitive abilities.
This led to the personal productivity boom, and books like ‘Getting Things Done’ and many others were hugely successful, as managers, profess...
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What organizations need to develop is a system that externalizes tasks, with virtual task boards that specify who is working on what at any time, along with the current status.
Optimization on a large scale only becomes possible when transparent data is there for each tea...
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The people who implemented the 'Inbox Zero; method ended up getting more emails as they were replying to all their emails, with increased activity.
They also paradoxically started checking the inbox more often.
The anxiety levels increased by applying hyper-productivity.
'Inbox Zero' is a concept introduced by Merlin Mann, a way to handle your email by processing them to zero.
This is achieved by taking appropriate actions like filing, noting or replying, to all your emails, ensuring no unanswered emails remain to make you anxious, so you can live your life...
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