News: Firm Bans E-mail to Boost Production
My assistant and good pal Clint popped into my cube the other day to tell me about this article. I said, "nice, but couldn't you have just e-mailed it to me?" (Get it? Because the article is about how e-mail can hinder communication...)
Actually, I've long thought that e-mail was a dangerous media for work purposes ... after all, it relies on writing to convey all the subtle nuances of voice and face in quite important matters. Since most trained writers haven't totally mastered this, why should we expect non-writers to do it with any competence?
My assistant and good pal Clint popped into my cube the other day to tell me about this article. I said, "nice, but couldn't you have just e-mailed it to me?" (Get it? Because the article is about how e-mail can hinder communication...)
Actually, I've long thought that e-mail was a dangerous media for work purposes ... after all, it relies on writing to convey all the subtle nuances of voice and face in quite important matters. Since most trained writers haven't totally mastered this, why should we expect non-writers to do it with any competence?
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