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Outlookicide!

No one needs recurring meetings, unnecessary reports, and thoughtless emails

Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash

Mike Figliuolo
Tue, 09/26/2023 - 12:03
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Meetings give me a rash. A really bad one. One that not even calamine lotion can soothe. The only things worse than meetings are reports. Standard daily reports, weekly reports, hourly reports. Reports on the status of reports. If I wasn’t already insane, these things would drive me insane.

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Take a look at your Outlook for this week (or if you’re a rebel, look at your Lotus Notes). How much time is spoken for already? How little time is left for you to actually get stuff done? Now take a look at your inbox. How many Excel files are in there with their thousands of rows of data that no one will look at until some SVP gets bored, opens one up, and asks a random question about a data point no one has looked at in months? Even more alarming is if you have folders in your Outlook dedicated to storing each of these reports so you can quickly answer said random questions because you have the reports conveniently stored on your laptop. By the way, they’re probably also stored on a shared drive somewhere, so you’ve now doubled the amount of data storage space required for this crap repository.

Fear not, my friends. There is a cure.

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Submitted by Massimo (not verified) on Tue, 09/26/2023 - 09:56

Outlookcide

I like this article that reflects lot of nowadays real situation...at least we could say ...we aren't politicians but the quality people...facts...evidences...and good level data to be analyzed 

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