[zephyrracer]

Keith I feel your pain, cell phone calls and emails can easily eat up 3 hours a day, having had this problem one of my solutions was to have walking meetings daily, we would hold emails and cell calls and discuss issues at the time of our walks it also spurred ideas and solutions, this saved a great deal of time with duplicate question and answers, discussions started out with bullet points schedule concerns and everything else, result was 20 minutes a day verses 3 hours a day, some other areas helped in the process was it gave team members a hands on and visual prospective, answered questions before they were asked and my favorite we became visual to all creating a stronger team collectively. Your deal is surly different, hope this helps a little.


Quick story at a family reunion at Boyett's in TN walked in place was crowded everyone looking down into their laps being the bible belt I thought all were saying a prayer before the meal as I walked through to my table I started to laugh at myself as they were all playing with their blk berries. People are in the communication mode as they think they type even as they sit next to each other.


Happy Holidays Gregg Blakemore