暢銷書《Deep Work深度工作力》作者卡爾‧紐波特,令人大開眼界的全新著作!
你每天花多少時間在檢查信箱、擔心漏收了重要電郵?
讓紐波特帶你擺脫email的束縛,擁抱真正有效率的工作模式!
現今的知識工作者,經常得處理大量的數位訊息、與他人在網上進行即時溝通,想在工作時間內「離線」,幾乎是不可能的事。電子郵件等工具曾是劃時代的發明,然而如今許多證據顯示,這些工具所創造的工作模式,已成為了製造效率災難、降低獲利、減緩經濟成長的兇手。更甚者,它們讓工作者陷入身心疲勞的惡性循環。
我們被訓練得如此習慣於被電子郵件所支配的工作排程,以至於幾乎無法想像其他工作方式。但這代表其他更好的方式不存在嗎?正好相反!紐波特在本書中,為讀者清楚闡述一系列執行改變的原則和具體方針,他主張建立明確的流程來定義、分配、檢核工作任務,取代被電子郵件、即時訊息所掌控的工作時間安排,並縮小每個人的職責內容,讓人們專注於把更少的事情做得更好,更鼓勵投注資源來優化行政作業流程、減輕相關負擔。
在知識工作領域,這樣的發展已是不可避免。真正該自問的問題,不是一個擺脫電子郵件束縛的世界是否將會來臨(這件事已然發生),而是你是否能領先這個趨勢一步。不論是正在尋找競爭優勢的企業CEO、想提升產能的創業者,或者是被收件夾不斷新增的郵件追著跑的員工,本書將帶你看見擁抱這個改變的時代正在來臨,以及,我們究竟該如何採取行動。(文/博客來編譯)
From New York Times bestselling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox--and unleashing a new era of productivity. Modern knowledge workers communicate constantly. Their days are defined by a relentless barrage of incoming messages and back-and-forth digital conversations--a state of constant, anxious chatter in which nobody can disconnect, and so nobody has the cognitive bandwidth to perform substantive work. We have become so used to an inbox-driven workday that it's hard to imagine alternatives. But they do exist. Drawing on years of investigative reporting, author and computer science professor Cal Newport makes the case that our current approach to work is broken, then lays out a series of principles and concrete instructions for fixing it. In A World without Email, he argues for a workplace in which clear processes--not haphazard messaging--define how tasks are identified, assigned and reviewed. If you're a CEO seeking a competitive edge, an entrepreneur convinced your productivity could be higher, or an employee exhausted by your inbox, A World Without Email will convince you that the time has come for bold changes, and will walk you through exactly how to make them happen.