Comments on: The Inbox, Dr Pavlov and reactive working http://richardmaybury.co.uk/2009/05/the-inbox-dr-pavlov-and-reactive-working/ Insights and hindsights on living purposefully, working productively, driving results, giving and getting more out of life. CALL: +44 (0)1428 607763 Thu, 17 May 2012 09:37:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Richard Maybury http://richardmaybury.co.uk/2009/05/the-inbox-dr-pavlov-and-reactive-working/comment-page-1/#comment-356 Richard Maybury Fri, 22 May 2009 15:01:49 +0000 http://priorityattitudes.com/?p=930#comment-356 Hi JJ, thanks for this. I thought it might appear next Thursday. This came out of a telephone conversation with Mark a few days ago. Unfortunately I have been misquoted in his first paragraph. As a quick asside - why is it that everyone says they have been misquoted, misrepresented or quoted out of context when they appear in the media? The main thrust of that part of our conversation was that, with massive amounts of data assaulting us every day, people invariably have a large number of open, unresolved and unstructured emails in their inbox which they treat as yet another To-Do list that they never get to the end of!. I will revisit my notes and post separately on this shortly. Hope you are well. Hi JJ, thanks for this. I thought it might appear next Thursday. This came out of a telephone conversation with Mark a few days ago. Unfortunately I have been misquoted in his first paragraph. As a quick asside – why is it that everyone says they have been misquoted, misrepresented or quoted out of context when they appear in the media?

The main thrust of that part of our conversation was that, with massive amounts of data assaulting us every day, people invariably have a large number of open, unresolved and unstructured emails in their inbox which they treat as yet another To-Do list that they never get to the end of!. I will revisit my notes and post separately on this shortly.

Hope you are well.

]]> By: JJBones http://richardmaybury.co.uk/2009/05/the-inbox-dr-pavlov-and-reactive-working/comment-page-1/#comment-355 JJBones Fri, 22 May 2009 07:51:23 +0000 http://priorityattitudes.com/?p=930#comment-355 Richard, I saw you were quoted in The Times yesterday in Mark Hunter's article: How to cope with a burgeoning workload. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/management/article6321863.ece Did you really mean that most people spend most of their time procrastinating! I can't believe you did. Sure, it is easy to have a number of issues (and emails) on the go at any one time but I'm not sure that's procrastinating - it more about juggling and managing as best one can, sometimes with incomplete information and competing priorities, flying around the business at a rate of knots. I recognise the 'Shout loudest' syndrome - and perhaps that does cause me to drop what I think I should be working on but that's not procrastinating. Procrastinating is writing this when I know I should be cracking on with the RFQ that's sitting in front of me. Anyway, thanks for all your support. Richard, I saw you were quoted in The Times yesterday in Mark Hunter’s article: How to cope with a burgeoning workload. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/management/article6321863.ece
Did you really mean that most people spend most of their time procrastinating! I can’t believe you did. Sure, it is easy to have a number of issues (and emails) on the go at any one time but I’m not sure that’s procrastinating – it more about juggling and managing as best one can, sometimes with incomplete information and competing priorities, flying around the business at a rate of knots.

I recognise the ‘Shout loudest’ syndrome – and perhaps that does cause me to drop what I think I should be working on but that’s not procrastinating. Procrastinating is writing this when I know I should be cracking on with the RFQ that’s sitting in front of me.

Anyway, thanks for all your support.

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