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Ted Bauer
Jan 13, 2016
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The two scourges of the modern workplace are e-mail and meetings, and I think it's fairly hard to argue that. On the e-mail front, to wit:

  • No one really contextualizes their e-mails (so everything seems urgent)

  • It's impossible to infer tone (so many people seem like a total dick)

  • It's a representation of your org's power structure (so where you rank is tie…

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