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By: John Lead

John Lead — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:36:27 +0000

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By: Bernd

Bernd — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:16:47 +0000

This idea works for standard non-complex messages and communication. If youre an able informationworker you should be able to handle large incoming amounts of messages. If not then it is not the e-mail system, it’s either the way you process information or the way your organisation processes information. And no amount of assistants or opening up the mailbox of the CEO will solve that.

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Links: Daily Round-Up « Youth Hacks — Tue, 01 May 2007 20:41:08 +0000

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By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 01 May 2007 20:39:58 +0000

I’ve recently started doing this with two of my employees (OM and marketing/publishing). I have a personal email, but by opening up the other email address, we’re much more connected and aware of what’s going on. This is really helpful if you’re all working out of different offices/homes. Interesting to see this shift is happening…

By: samdy

samdy — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:30:15 +0000

Ten years ago, a senior exec in hal.com would share his email with any of the following:
an Executive Assistant – rising star on assignment to the senior exec’s office to have his view broadened – expected to fix the “easy 80%”
a Personal Assistant – who fixed all calendar and logistics problems
a Technical Executive – who sorted out the hi-tech stuff

I suspect there was a personal email address only known to a few people such as the CEO.

By: Michael Wales

Michael Wales — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:07:35 +0000

Here within the Air Force this is a very common occurrence – especially with our high-ranking General Officers. In my particular position I work within the General’s “Workflow” box – which is a transition point for all work coming into or out of the organization – 5 of us have full permissions to that box and use it to pass ‘tasking’ down to other organizational “Workflow” boxes that are accessible by everyone within that orgnization (they are then filtered down into further “Workflow” boxes until a particular workcenter has control of that job).

In addition, the General’s personal mailbox, is accessed by his assistant staff as well as his top-tier Colonel’s. Most of the time, the messages coming into this box will be passed on to these people for review/action anyways – why waste time forwarding the messages around?

By: Joe Clark

Joe Clark — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:03:35 +0000

E-mail fails completely as a “collaboration tool” because most people don’t know the first thing about how to use it to communicate with one person, rampant top-posting being the most obvious and egregious example.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:55:07 +0000

Interesting – a clever way to break the tape worm drain of email while more deeply engaging employees. In my fat aerospace days, I had empowered a secretary to manage my e-calendar, and many peers allowed secretaries’ to read and sort email. Not as bold as you cite, but enough of a step such that broader access shouldn’t cause complete revolt. The only concern I’d have with the open email paradigm described would be privacy for those that send an email under the assumption it is a point-to-point communication, not a broadcast for all to see. Although most realize that corporate email, esp. sent to the “C” level, is not private, emails directed to lower-rung folks is more typically assumed to be private.