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When you wake up, you check your email. Before you start work, you check your email. Before you go to bed, you check your email. Wait. Are you chief email checker, or do you actually run a business?
Hey, it's Alzay Calhoun with Coveted Consultant. This video series is all about giving leaders better tools so you can build the best in class company you envision. The truth is that you'll never build that best in class company if you're chasing tasks all day long. This whole series is about your transition from chief firefighter into chief executive.
Specifically, today, we're talking about this challenge of the email inbox, and how it can drive your entire day. It's the first thing you do when you wake up, it's the first thing you do when you start work, and it's the last thing you do before you go to bed. If that's your rhythm, then you're not running your business, because email is driving you. We've got to get some better behaviors about this. First, let's talk about how you got into this rhythm in the first place.
First off, let's just admit that email is a way that we communicate. There's tons of email. It's a quick way of communicating, and that's the typical rhythm that we're all in. Because you want to be a responsible leader of your company, you respond to email. You get email. That's how you know what's going on, that's how you communicate. That's how you can stay in touch. That's one reason why you got in the rhythm in the first place.
The second thing is that we both know that you're employees use emails to CYA, cover their assets. That's how your employees let you know that they know what's going on, that they're in the loop, that they're doing their job, as they carbon copy you on email. You get a lot of emails that you're carbon copied on just because other folks want you to know that they know what's going on.
Here's thing number three. Let's be honest. Let's admit. There's an ego boost that comes with email. We like it when someone reaches out to us and let's us know that they care about us. They know we exist. They want out attention. They need our approval, because you're the leader. People need stuff from you. There's some ego, there's some feel good that comes along with getting email, especially when you get a lot of it.
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