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Today in HBR: 6 social media choices you have to make in 2011

Today in HBR: 6 social media choices you have to make in 2011

What am I choosing to do on the Web? That's one of the key choices you'll need to make this year, as we set the course for how social media will integrate into our lives and reshape the world. In my blog post today for HBR,  Social Media in 2011: Six Choices You Need...

5 life lessons you can learn from emptying your inbox

5 life lessons you can learn from emptying your inbox

This entry is part 11 of 11 in the series 7 Days to Inbox Zero

You’ve probably got a handful of e-mails that are still in your inbox because you are, on some level, avoiding them. These e-mails, more than anything else, illuminate your core personal or professional blocks. Forcing yourself through them — the way you have to in order to empty your inbox — is not just a path to e-mail efficiency, but a very meaningful exercise in character-building. Here are some of the lessons that may lie waiting in your inbox.