It took a LinkedIn exchange to motivate me to share this appeal for enhanced email etiquette.  One of my connections, an entrepreneur in the housewares industry, recently posted the following: “Should the death penalty be applicable to people that don’t hit “reply all” on emails. Let’s discuss.” I responded, “No. Maybe the Congressional Medal of Honor, though.” A long-standing itch had been scratched!

As an experienced in-house generalist of a global manufacturing company who services clients across administrative, operations and commercial functions, I receive and send scores of emails every day. Sometimes I use the number of emails in my inbox as a quasi-barometer of how busy things are.