Those who delete quickly and efficiently might be control freaks, while those with 1,000 unread emails may not be as unorganized as you'd think.
When I texted a friend to say I was thinking about writing an article on what your inbox might reveal about your personality, he immediately texted me back:
"I've got three emails in my inbox. What does that say about me?"
"It means you're the worst," I texted back.
By "you're the worst," of course, I meant, "your ability to manage your digital life is everything I aspire to, and I am therefore insanely jealous."
Managing your inbox is an underrated workplace virtue , argues Richard Moran, CEO of consultancy Frost & Sullivan. When employees don't respond, coworkers perceive them as unorganized and lazy.
At that moment, my personal inbox contained 57 unread emails but if I'm being completely honest, I'd recently spent a weekend whittling it down from close to 1,000.
As Moran suggests, is my inability to keep a tidy inbox something I should worry about? In other words, if it signaled that I suffered from some deep-seated emotional issue or cognitive deficit beyond simple disorganization. Likewise, I wanted to know if inbox heroes like my friend were actually destined to be more successful than the rest of us.
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