Decorum means nothing if you’ve sacrificed productivity to achieve it
The fortitude to produce results is often accompanied with a will that blusters, and it can leave others with a toxic aftertaste. Is decorum a tonic, or outdated fluff without depth?
Chuckling, remembering the blast as it landed — a showstopper of an email was sent around a group I once worked for. It spluttered furiously! It spluttered carelessly without an undo, and off it went — sent up from some C-level to the Chairman.
“I appreciate this is your third email to me, and I will respond,”
it stated bluntly. Maybe a little arrogantly…
“…in due time. But - you have cross copied so many who do not need to be in this email chain
[ironically, this message was copied into all those “who do not need to be”]
“…so PLEASE, a little decorum?”
Aligning with the habit for caps was a mistake. Regardless, this message was already laughable as the vast majority of the company now had fresh fodder for the gossip canon. The CXO’s email went on:
