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The Power of CC - #PureGold

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Photo credit : <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/156555495@N04/36313599065/">Free For Commercial Use (FFC)</a> via <a href="https://visualhunt.com/re/f5ffe6">VisualHunt.com</a> / <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"> CC BY</a> Have you heard about this before? The -CC- in your email; the Carbon Copy of an email, that keeps the most important person in loop, just to ensure that things get done, in an otherwise extremely extra relaxed corporate setup. Brace yourself for the power of CC in emails. It will save you from blemishes, if any were to happen!  This isn't done to make people realize the kind of support one has behind him/her, however it's done simply to emphasize on the point of speeding up processes.  Long before the advent of the personal computer and internet, coaxing would take precedence. It involved getting to know people personally, and sharing couple of cups of ...

The Corporate #Email Etiquette

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                                                                 Photo via VisualHunt The corporate world is a jungle of sorts. It's an jargon amazon, waterfall of business theories and flowerbed of stereotypical conversations. ( Read: water cooler )  At some point of time, we are all accused of using one too many a jargon and playing too safe on emails, or pushing for rudimentary stuff, which isn't accepted among a lot of the teams/divisions. Let's be honest, there is no 'hard and fast' rule to e-mails in particular, however being cordial and empathizing with the person on the other side is a good place to start. Alas! That too can be construed in a wrong manner.  There are a couple things we could keep in mind, to stay sprightly clean at work and add an element of surprise as well! Addressing Peop...