9 Rules for Emailing According to Google Exec Eric Schmidt
Here are a few rules for emailing as suggested by Eric Schmidt:Details on each rule can be found on this article.
- Respond quickly.
- When writing an email, every word matters, and useless prose doesn’t. Be crisp in your delivery.
- Clean out your inbox constantly.
- Handle email in LIFO order (Last In First Out). Sometimes the older stuff gets taken care of by someone else.
- Remember, you’re a router.
- When you use the bcc (blind copy) feature, ask yourself why.
- Don’t yell.
- Make it easy to follow up on requests.
- Help your future self search for stuff. If you get something you think you may want to recall later, forward it to yourself along with a few keywords that describe its content.
Details on each rule can be found on this article.