Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!sequent!ccssrv!perry
From: perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Low Productivity of Knowledge Workers
Message-ID: <675@ccssrv.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 89 03:42:49 GMT
References: <9676@venera.isi.edu> <189@crucible.UUCP> <291@voa3.UUCP> <7765@microsoft.UUCP> <425@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <5978@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison)
Organization: Control-C Software, Inc., Beaverton, OR
Lines: 10

In article <5978@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:

> What do you do about computer-phobes that refuse to read their
> email on a regular basis (or at all), and those people (who are
> typically important) who demand printed copies of everything?

You convince top management to adopt email.  When middle managers discover
that they are missing messages from the chief by not reading their email,
they will quickly learn to do so.  They can even learn to print out their
own hard-copy if they can't live without it.