The Hamster Revolution: How to Manage Your Email Before It Manages You

by Tim Burress, Mike Song, Vicki Halsey

Book Overview

Do you spend so much time dealing with e-mails--reading them, writing them, responding to them, responding to responses--that you feel like you're just going round and round and getting nowhere? Meet... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576755738
• ISBN13: 9781576755730
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A Fresh View Over Email Management

Most of the text in the book are good practices that have been already beaten to death in many other publications, online or in physical media. Nevertheless, the method to organize the emails in folders (C.O.A.T.) according to priority and how everything comes together is an invaluable advice. I was reluctant at the beginning, but as soon as I started applying the recommendations, my email productivity started to improve immediately. If you're spending more than 45min to 1hr a day on email, you must read this book.

Good practical advice in Hamster Revolution

The book is a quick read that leaves you with a couple of actionable concepts that appear to have time-saving potential. The small section on different methods of categorization was worth the purchase price alone. The email tips are definitely worthwhile and the filing system advice falls right in line. Well done!

Going Sane

The Hamster Revolution has provided me with a systematic way of getting control over one of my largest headaches, email. As an executive in a small business, I wear many hats and get emails from every group in the company ranging from Accounting to Sales. I am looking forward to purchasing a copy for every employee in hopes to tame them. It is about time someone has approached this subject in a simplistic yet effective manner. Now that I have found a way to get off the wheel, it is time to start figuring a way to get out of the cage. Action: A must read and immediate implement

Entertaining and Packed with Practical Advice

This book is a great read. The authors have clearly taken their own advice in writing the Hamster Revolution. They have packed their story full of great practical tips and advice and presented it in an entertaining, engaging and very efficient narrative. Take this book with you on your next commute or plane trip - it will be the most productive ride you have had in a long time.

Practical and fun

This book gives practical, insightful solutions to the problem of e-mail overload, but does it in a fun, entertaining way. It's only after I finished it that I realized how much useful information is packed into the story. I liked this much better than Who Moved My Cheese and other business motivational books.