Managing emails (in Outlook) is simple — once you understand three things
Managing emails (in Outlook) is simple — once you understand three things For many, managing an inbox is an agonizing Sisyphean task – or at least unpleasant and inefficient. But really, it’s quite simple, and can be enormously efficient if you embrace three important concepts. Before we get to those concepts, however, let’s understand why […]
6 Reasons Why You Should Not Implement LeanMail In Your Organization
6 Reasons Why You Should Not Implement LeanMail In Your Organization 1. Email management solutions are basically digital paper shuffler. Myth: LeanMail probably organizes email and adds more bureaucracy to an already bureaucratic process. I have enough add-ins my kitchen drawer already. Myth Buster: LeanMail is not an organizer — though it will help you become more organized. It is a Lean-based […]
9 Tips for Working from Home
9 Tips for Working from Home There are oodles of tips on the Net for working from home. Here is a compact version. 1. Create a morning and closing routine Routines are important because they prime us for jumping into our work and help us transition back to our personal life, respectively. There are lots […]
How to squeeze more out of your employees – and have them thank you for it.
How to squeeze more out of your employees – and have them thank you for it No one cares about how well employees manage their inbox. Not the leadership. Not employees themselves. But here is why everyone should: Fixing it will take two hours. Keeping it fixed, another two hours over a couple of weeks. […]
Errors that LeanMail novices make in the planning step
Errors that LeanMail novices make in the planning step Follow-up; Read; Read and revert; Call; are a few of the typical entries that many LeanMail novices write as Next Actions. At the time you write them, they make perfect sense because at that particular moment you were immersed in the details of what it was you were supposed to do. The problem occurs three […]
Politically Correct or Upstanding?
Politically Correct or Upstanding? There are two reasons why I think it’s high time we traded the term “politically correct” with the something else. The first reason is because over the years “politically correct” has been stigmatized as being negative and heavy instead of righteous and observant of personal values and ethics. Less informed people shun being politically correct because […]
How to Run an Effective Daily Stand-up Meeting
How to Run an Effective Daily Stand-up Meeting I was recently requested to suggest how to run an effective daily stand-up meeting. It dawned on me that we had not articulated the process in our own company so all the more reason to explicitly formulate this important morning staple. The Goal The goal of the […]
A word from our CEO, Michael Hoffman
A word from our CEO, Michael Hoffman Most of you know that besides being an executive coach, I run a software company called LeanMail. But what many of you are perhaps not aware of is that we recently made a revolutionary change in our implementation model. Previously, we sold LeanMail as a single unit […]
Become More Organized With Habit Change
Is This You? Improving with Habit Change I’ve seen Hector (a local homeless person) wheeling his cart around Barcelona a few times. It’s massive. It must be extremely difficult to maneuver. One day I went up to him asked him if he really needed all of those things. He actually articulated an impressive defense. That’s […]
Email management for productivity, a tool but not a Solution
Email management for productivity: easy to mistake a tool for a solution. Even though most of our customers might call our LeanMail email management software for Microsoft Outlook the definitive solution for email management, productivity, and efficiency, it’s not. It’s easy to mistake a tool for a solution because once you have consciously and subconsciously […]
How to not hate your inbox? Don’t blame the tool, improve email management.
Email management is not a tool and it’s not bad Many people refer to email management as a tool, but it’s not. Email is a medium just like books, CD’s, and letters are media. You may not like managing email but that has less to do with the media itself and more to do with […]
If you are a LeanMail user who finds him or herself on the road a lot…
If you are a LeanMail user who finds him or herself on the road a lot — perhaps you don’t even start your computer every day, you can still keep up with LeanMail. Here’s how: Of course the best way is to download the LeanMail app for iPhone is here: But if you don’t have […]
