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S U M M A R Y


DIARY: March 25, 1996 02:01 PM Monday; Rod Welch

Called Bill and Morris about meeting with Intel tomorrow.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Mail Not Delivered Cannot Find Needed Email
3...Not Enough Time to Be Prepared by Reviewing the Record


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SUBJECTS
PMI Event Program, Proposal
Contract/Charter, Buy In, Shared Vision
Agenda, Schedule, Speakers
Leadership
Mail is Not Delivered
Reading and Writing, Not Enough Time
Email, Not Enough Time to Read
Time Not Enough to Read Record for Being Prepared Too Many Email Obje
Jones, Morris Cannot Find Information in Email Too Much Information N
Email Too Many to Manage Time Not Enough to Review Objects that Readi
Jones, Morris Finding Information Impossible Using Other Methods with

6313 -
6313 -    ..
6314 - Summary/Objective
6315 -
631501 - Follow up ref SDS 10 0000, ref SDS 9 0000.
631503 -  ..
631504 - Talked to Pat.  She said Bill is out; she will ask him to call.
631505 -
631506 -
631508 -  ..
6316 -
6317 -
6318 - 1551 called Morris
6319 -
631901 - Set lunch at 1300 for tomorrow, so we can review notes of meeting
631902 - with Marcy and understandings with General Hatch to aligh Morris'
631903 - work on Asilomar.
631904 -
631906 -  ..
631907 - Mail Not Delivered Cannot Find Needed Email
631908 - Not Enough Time to Be Prepared by Reviewing the Record
631909 -
631910 - Morris said he still has not had time to review the record of our
631911 - meeting on 960227, ref SDS 3 0001, submitted via ref DIP 1 0001, on
631912 - 960303, ref SDS 4 0001, nor has Morris read the record of the meeting
631913 - with Intel two weeks ago on 960315. ref SDS 6 0001, which was
631914 - submitted via ref DIP 4 0001 on 960318. ref SDS 7 0001
631916 -  ..
631917 - People not having enough time to prepare for work by reading the mail
631918 - was reported on 951214. ref SDS 1 3289  More recently on 960205 a
631919 - study was published showing people waste 70% of the day becasue time
631920 - is not invested to be prepared for doing the work. ref SDS 2 5902
631922 -  ..
631923 - Morris said he did not see that article published by AP, but agrees it
631924 - is difficult to find time to be prepared.
631925 -
631926 -      [On 960326 after some struggle, ref SDS 12 0M90, Morris read the
631927 -      record to prepare for doing the work. ref SDS 12 YV4K
631928 -
631929 -      [On 960406 experience at a major law firm showed the price people
631930 -      pay for failing to invest time for organization so that finding
631931 -      information is fast and easy. ref SDS 14 5922
631933 -       ..
631934 -      [On 960721 Morris reported having a "bunch" of email there has
631935 -      not been time to read. ref SDS 15 0096
631937 -       ..
631938 -      [On 960721 Morris did not have have time at the Asilomar
631939 -      Conference to read the introduction prepared for him. ref SDS 15
631940 -      0096
631942 -       ..
631943 -      [On 980722 Morris explained practice of reading and responding to
631944 -      email every day so that a backlog does not build up. ref SDS 17
631945 -      HQ7L
631947 -       ..
631948 -      [On 970728 Intel people get 70 email a day. ref SDS 16 3325
631950 -       ..
631951 -      [On 980905 Morris explained that traditional management practices
631952 -      to read and respond to correspondence have declined since the
631953 -      1970s when concern about accountability began to rise with the
631954 -      advance of better communication technology. ref SDS 18 0714
631956 -       ..
631957 -      [On 010926 Eric Armstrong reported nobody can find anything on
631958 -      the computer using popular programs for email and information
631959 -      management. ref SDS 19 KA6H
631961 -       ..
631962 -      [On 011003 productivity is paralyzed because it is too hard to
631963 -      find information when needed. ref SDS 20 EC5N
631965 -  ..
631966 - I advised of understandings from Tom Landauer's  paper on Plato's
631967 - Problem about induction theory and the mathamatical application that
631968 - tends to support using "metrics" to support daily communications...
631969 - ref SDS 11 1100
631970 -
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631974 -
631975 -
6320 -