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129: No One Wants to Work With a Jerk, with Colleen Wainwright

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How to Give Notification to Everyone

David Perry: 25 to 30 percent of my time is spent on projects where I just need to shut everything out and focus. He says if you're on a shared calendar system, give it some nebulous name like "Smith client," so that people will think he's actually working on the Smith client project. When someone sends a message to you directly, it sounds like that is automatically not just urgent or time sensitive, but it's also important.

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