method of stimulating business growth. By quickly stopping a project
that might be doomed to a dead end anyway, you create a void
to fill with something that is worthwhile today, with more realistic
returns.
E-Mail: The Flexibility Killer
As if all the deadlines causing stress and the heavy workload
weren’t enough to make you keep your head down, there is the
dreaded volume and velocity of e-mail to help fill out the day.
E-mail can become so consuming that it can take away any sense
of flexibility, especially when it causes you to get lost in the messages
of the moment, taking you away from what should be the
important focus for the long term.
It is difficult to be flexible when a day is filled with the crisis of
the moment, the laundry list of things to do, phone calls, person-