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Many suffer from overcrowded inboxes and getting more e-mails than they can handle. Having a smart way of dealing with incoming mail once it has arrived is one thing, but we can also influence how efficiently we utilize e-mailing as a whole through how we compose the e-mails we send others. Today, 'Done!' presents six tips to how you can help others help you make your e-mailing more efficient.

We can?t do everything we need to do everywhere or anywhere. For some things we need a computer, for others access to a phone and some things can only be done in the office. We gain concentration if we at each point in time only need to care about the tasks that are available to work on where we are at the moment. Today, 'Done!' presents how to quickly focus on what you can do right here, right now.

Any business can be described as consisting of a bunch of processes. This makes it possible to improve it in a practical, systematic and structured way. Today, Done! presents how you can improve one of your processes as easy as pie.

The purpose of the action plan is to change and transform the business through its processes in the intention of achieving our goals. Perhaps this sounds overly bureaucratic, but it is possible to make it really simple. Today, 'Done!' presents just how simple an action plan could be.

The vision describes the envisioned, future situation we want to achieve in the company. The more senses the vision appeals to, the more efficiently it can inspire us, as leaders and as co-workers. Today, 'Done!' presents six ideas on how to formulate and communicate the vision.

Do you want to improve your personal structure at work, but don't know where to start? Maybe you are doubtful as to whether it is even possible to change, and you might even fear that your particular situation is a hopeless case. Do not despair. Today, 'Done!' presents three simple steps towards a better personal structure.

When you are arranging your system for documents, to-do-lists, referencematerial and other materials, it is normal to ask yourself how it should be done, for instance, how should I store the documents I might need some day? But, it's not the format that does it. Today, 'Done!' is about what really matters.

Have you ever delegated an task to someone or have someone promise that they would get back to you with some sort of information you need, forgot that you did, and then, at the very last minute, discover that you haven't yet received the material you desperately need right now? Today, Done! is about what to do to never have to experience that ever again.

We can be very efficient as individuals, but to be successful in making the company evolve into what we want it to become, we need to connect our structured and productive working habits with the overall structure of the company. Today, Done! presents five conceptual relationships which need to be in resonance with each other.

Do you feel that you never have time to start working in a new, more efficient way? Do you know what new, clever habit you would like to adopt, but you never seem to find the time? Today, Done! tells you how to get out of that vicious circle.

A consistent theme in creating a good personal or organizational structur is simplification, to make things simpler. When things move too slowly forward and even when we get totally stuck, our business can get going and accelerate easier if we make things simple. Today, Done! explains how.

Do you suffer from having piles of paper on your desk? Do you get distracted by seeing them and do you lose focus everytime you happen to look that way? Today, Done! presents a simple tool that makes them disappear immediately, only to reappear almost automatically right when you need them the most.

As I see it, it is just as easy to create an excellent personal structure as it is to keep a defective structure. It is just a matter of habits and simple tools. Today, Done! covers nine common mistakes that prevents good personal structure and tips on how to avoid them.

How are we to know what is the right thing to do right now (out of everything you have to do)? Today, Done! covers the far too forgotten tool "vision" and how it can be of immense use to you on an average workday.

It is one thing to decide to start writing up everything you have to do, in order to get it off your mind, but where are you to write it? Today, Done! presents six possible places for your to-dos. Choose the one that fits your taste.