7 easy tips for improving your email
1. Problem: Not using specific subject lines. Vague subject lines in an email waste people's time. By not writing subject lines for outgoing e-mails that clearly tell the receiver what you are requesting them to do, you cut down on your ability to influence.
Solution: Help your email receivers sort, categorize, and prioritize your messages by writing specific subject lines. Try to encourage other members of your team to do the same so you can sort emails with greater ease.
2. Problem: Disparaging someone. Such "poison key" emails hurts the sender more than the receiver. Your words can come back to haunt you.
Solution: Think before you send. Don't use email to criticize, condemn, or complain. At the very least, don't copy a long list of people on the email.
3. Problem: Needless ping-pong. Adding to email glut with needless replies -- like "OK," "thanks," and the like -- is
Continental AG Says Forecast Won't Change as China Slows
Continental AG (CON), Europe’s second- largest tiremaker, said it has factored slowing Chinese growth in auto sales into earnings projections and won’t be revising the outlook in the wake of comments from an official yesterday.
Hanover, Germany-based Continental assumes expansion in the China market of about 5 percent, Chief Executive Officer Elmar Degenhart said in an interview ahead of a press briefing in Hamburg. The stock fell 4.6 percent yesterday, mirroring declines across the industry.
Gu Xianghua, deputy secretary general of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, said yesterday that 2012 sales will probably miss an 8 percent growth forecast because of the “difficult” economic backdrop, and that total vehicle deliveries may fail to increase by even 5 percent.
“It’s ridiculous,” Degenhart said. “Nothing will change, nothing. We told the press three weeks ago, we are calculating with a growth in China of 5 percent. Nothing has happened. So we will not change our outlook.”
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