[bricemo]

Take the ego, judgment, and “how things should be” out of it. This is about how to effectively get results as the sender. And it works.

We all have this choice of principle versus effectiveness. If you would like to go with the strategy of thinking the receiver is self-centered, and you should have to only send one email, then good luck. In today’s world you will not have as effective a reply conversion rate as someone else who sends three emails.

I know this is controversial, so everyone is free to attempt the first strategy.

[bluepizza]

From a practical point of view, absolutely. Excellent advice.

But it hurts to see behind the curtain, and see that this tactic is necessary because of the excuses given by several very important people. It makes it very obvious for us that the power imbalance is terrible, and that they are able to get away with behavior that they wouldn’t tolerate from others.