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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]