‘I banned internal e-mails for a week’
By Shayne Hughes, chief executive of Learning as Leadership
Forbes
“All internal e-mail is forbidden for the next week,” I announced to my staff.
I wish I could say I stated it boldly, chest puffed out and chin held high. Instead, I whispered it in a cowardly manner from behind the conference table as my team’s strenuous objections hurtled at me full force.
“We won’t get anything done.”
“The whole company is going to grind to a halt.”
“We’ll be interrupting each other every two minutes.”
“I can’t wait a week to have a one-on-one to talk about urgent issues.”
“It’ll make my life miserable! How am I going to delegate to my assistant? I already have too much to do.”
“It’ll be chaos.”
