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The Deadheading Solution
Tom's latest eBook has been released on Amazon: "The 7 Myths of IT Integrations". Tom is also a Program Director for a large Midwest corporation and has been an adjunct faculty member at Walsh College. He has managed global web initiatives, data center moves and large multi-million dollar programs.
>>> “Barnett, Tom” <[email protected]> 09/13/08 3:03 PM >>>
All, right. That’s it. I’ve been a nice guy up until now, but I can’t keep quiet about this sort of thing any longer. I’ve put up with this for far too long and I have to say something. I am declaring my independence from fractured email “chat”, from incomplete electronic message fragments that have to be pieced together, and from messages that are not only confusing to me but to every poor soul down the line that I forward the message to.
You all know what I am talking about, and don’t pretend you don’t. You face it yourself, every business day as you clean out e-mail messages from your inbox. The first line is always the same: “Can you take care of this?” or “We have a problem.” The worst of all is a “Reply All” to a series of questions someone posed and the reply starts with the line “See answers to your q’s below...”
Why is it that a new e-mail message sent to me suddenly becomes a puzzle that requires me to spend time in order to figure it out? When did it happen?
Communication Recession
It had to have happened gradually. Over time, people in general and project managers in particular stopped writing complete thoughts in their …
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