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The Hamster Revolution: How to Manage Your Email Before It Manages You | 
 enlarge | Authors: Mike Song, Vicki Halsey, Tim Burress
Creator: Ken Blanchard
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 168831
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1576754375
Dewey Decimal Number: 651.79
EAN: 9781576754375
ASIN: 1576754375
Publication Date: January 1, 2007
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Product Description
The Hamster Revolution is a timely solution to both the widespread problem of email overload as well as most people's inefficient (or nonexistent) systems for categorizing and storing email messages. This book provides the practical steps needed to deal with these problems and become more efficient in our work.
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 The Hamster Revolution June 13, 2008
The Hamster Revolution is a provocative and helpful book that takes on one of the great challenges of work and personal life: email.
I have been trying to implement what I learned myself and also hope my organization will start this revolution among our workers.
Considering how email dominates our lives these days, this is one self-help book that is really helpful!
I'm a HAMSTER May 3, 2008
Wow. I didn't even know I was a hamster.
The tips in this book are wonderful and I've had three of the people above me in the office heirarchy tell me how much they like my new email format. Not only are my emails getting attention, they're also getting better responses!
If you're in the email quagmire, this is the book you must read!
Excelent Book March 8, 2008
Excelent Book, using the strategies presented on it really helps to manage email. have succesfully reduced 30% of my email.
 Some good ideas for communicating effectively with email February 8, 2008
It is a quick read with some very good ideas for communicating clearly and effectively via email and how to minimize the amount of email that you send and receive. Excellent for groups and teams.
 Arguable but Worth Attention February 1, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The aim of this book is to reduce email volume, improve email quality, encourage sending email that is more actionable and organize folders using COTA (Clients, Output, Teams, Admin) approach. Although, some ideas of the book are arguable, the book makes you think once again about your way of emailing. Some readers may find COTA useful, but for me it is too complicated and counterproductive. You can do more in less time with a simpler scheme. I prefer the method advocated by David Allen in his book "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity": where the messages are divided by four categories: "next actions", "projects", "waiting for" and "someday/maybe".
I also disagree with the authors' advice to use instant messaging (IM) in addition to email. The authors did not get the major point of e-mail: you write your emails in the most convenient time for you, and the recipient reads them in the most convenient time for her. What the authors do not understand is that you cannot disturb somebody by sending an email in an inappropriate time. For example, the authors wrote that an email may be "...unnecessary interruption in a workday already filled with interruptions. .... You are working on an important project that requires a lot of concentration.... your masterpiece... and ding, an email comes in". The authors do not understand that is not the arrival that made you interrupt, but the counterproductive configuration of the email software that notifies you about the incoming messages. If you will disable the notifications, an incoming email will never break off your concentration again. You will read all the incoming messages in a proper time. The authors also forget about spam - a potential source for interruptions. IM is also the big source of interruptions, and not as efficient as the telephone.
"Turn off your email alarm" is advised by Julie Morgenstern, author of "Never Check E-Mail In the Morning", and by Gleb Arkhangelsky, author of "Time Drive". I highly recommend the two books above mentioned, as well as "Getting Things Done" by David Allen.
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