How to email like a Superstar Ceo
0 likes529 views
The document outlines Tony Hsieh's Yesterbox technique for email management. The technique involves only responding to emails from the previous day's inbox, processing 10 emails before looking at new messages. Emails requiring over 10 minutes to respond to or additional research should be filed for later response. A recurring calendar event should be set to go through the previous day's inbox daily and only delete, file, or forward new emails received that day.
How to email like a Superstar Ceo
- 1. HOW TO EMAIL LIKE A SUPERSTAR CEO With the Tony Hsieh Yesterbox Technique
- 2. Your to-do list is simply yesterday's email inbox (hence Yesterbox)
- 3. If it can wait 48 hours without causing harm, then you are not allowed to respond to any emails that come in today.
- 4. When processing yesterday's inbox you must process 10 of yesterday's emails before you can look at any emails coming in today
- 5. For any email from yesterday that takes more than 10 minutes to respond, or requires additional research,you should simply file it away into a folder and then schedule a time on your calendar in the future to respond.
- 6. Set a recurring appointment to go through yesterday's inbox every day.
- 7. When in your "reward" phase of reading the latest emails from today, you're only allowed to do the following with today's emails: delete, file, or forward.
- 8. If you need to refer to an email later schedule a meeting on your calendar and file the email into another folder
- 9. If you fall behind and have emails that are older than yesterday's inbox, schedule additional time on your calendar to catch up to emails older than yesterday's inbox
- 10. For emails that can wait (such as videos, non-urgent articles, etc.) and have no real deadline, send those emails to another email address.
- 11. Put emails that are notes into something like Pocket and remove them from your inbox.