The 5 Choices by Kory Kogon Adam Merrill & Leena Rinne

Author:Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill & Leena Rinne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

OPTIMIZING THIS MOVE

As we have discussed, we are focusing on your email inbox because it is a common challenge for people who work in organizations. However, the principle of Win Without Fighting can apply to lots of technologies and circumstances:

• You can use the features on your phone to set up separate ringtones for a few most important relationships and use a different ringtone for other relationships. This allows your phone to alert you differently when you get a text or phone call so that you can respond appropriately. You can also set some numbers to not to ring at all; they go right to your voicemail. You have decided from whom and how you will accept an interruption to your flow. This keeps your attention and your brain cells focused on the important task at hand.

• If you have someone to whom you can delegate tasks, this can be seen as another form of automation. Are you making all the decisions on even the smallest things, when someone on your team would be better suited to handle them so that you can free your mind for something of higher value? By spending some time and helping this person get better at handling things that might otherwise come to you, you are automatically removing those things from your inbox in the future and, as a bonus, helping others grow in their jobs as well.

• If you are lucky enough to have an assistant, this kind of thinking can help there as well. The better and more trusted that person is at his or her job, the less stuff you need to see, or at least you can see it in a sorted, organized fashion. This empowerment automatically takes care of things that would otherwise be filling your mental inbox.

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