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Treat Email Like Laundry — and Other Tips from Google’s Productivity Expert

Treat Email Like Laundry — and Other Tips from Google’s Productivity Expert

Update: 2024-04-026
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The amount of work we need to get done seems to grow daily. To avoid becoming overwhelmed, we have to become more productive than ever. Laura Mae Martin has advice on what has worked well at one of the biggest organizations in the world. She's the Executive Productivity Advisor at Google and shares the practical ways she helps her colleagues and company executives manage their time, calendars, email inboxes, and more. Martin is the author of the new book Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing.
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Treat Email Like Laundry — and Other Tips from Google’s Productivity Expert

Treat Email Like Laundry — and Other Tips from Google’s Productivity Expert