Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Low Productivity of Knowledge Workers Summary: Who uses email Message-ID: <652@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 29 Sep 89 22:45:58 GMT References: <9676@venera.isi.edu> <189@crucible.UUCP> <291@voa3.UUCP> <9697@chinet.chi.il.us> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 13 Someone asked how you get people to use email. The secret is to have support at the top. If the head honcho starts asking for info by email, sending out meeting notices, etc, pretty soon the next level down starts at least reading and responding. The technical staff pretty much will use it as soon as available, anyway, and the middle management gets mail from above and below. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon