Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Low Productivity of Knowledge Workers Message-ID: <4010@phri.UUCP> Date: 24 Sep 89 16:50:56 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> <675@ccssrv.UUCP> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 21 In article <675@ccssrv.UUCP> perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison) writes: > 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. Case in point, I do most of my communication with our Associate Director by email. Unfortunately, he can't seem to deal with reading material on the screen, so he usually takes the documents I email him and prints them out (actually, he eforwards them to his secretary who goes to great pain to strip out the email headers and reformat them for paper!) We have a "computer system oversight" committee here with administrative, scientific, and technical people on it. When organizing meetings, I only send email and make a point of not mentioning it in person, even to people I see on a regular basis, who I suspect may not have bothered to read their email recently. Sometimes it causes people to miss meetings and bitch and moan about it, but I figure it serves them right. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu "The connector is the network"