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The Myth of the Paperless Office

Abigail J. Sellen

Over the past thirty years, many people have proclaimed the imminent arrival of the paperless office. Yet even the World Wide Web, which allows almost any computer to read and display another computer's documents, has increased the amount of printing done. The use of e-mail in an organization causes...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Karma described the book as showing how companies that succeeded in going paperless were actually pursuing broader efficiency goals. He highlighted its lesson about intentional, slow change delivering results.

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The second book is The Myth of the Paperless Office by Abigail J. Sellin.

— Episode: The Office is Dying. It’s Time to Rethin...

Episode: The Office is Dying. It’s Time to Rethink How We W...

Karma described the book as showing how companies that succeeded in going paperless were actually pursuing broader efficiency goals. He highlighted its lesson about intentional, slow change delivering results.

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The second book is The Myth of the Paperless Office by Abigail J. Sellin.

It's about what on the surface should be a really boring topic, which is paperless offices, but it has this wonderful lesson at the heart of it, which is that the companies that succeeded in a transition to a paperless office were the ones that weren't actually trying to go paperless.

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