Today, savvy mailroom managers discover advantages maintaining a robust reading list! A number of excellent materials help assist employees seeking to streamline and administer mail and package processing centers more effectively. Whether you seek additional information to assist you in obtaining solid values at mail equipment sales, or you simply want to boost your employee’s morale (or advance you own career), these titles will inform, entertain, and challenge:
1. Prosperity in the Information Age: Creating Value With Technology from Mailrooms to Boardrooms by James K. K. Ho (1994)
This textbook still finds a place on mailroom reference bookshelves. Written during the early 1990s, and available at a very modest price in paperback today, it offers the perspective of an author who has also written about topics as varied as Lotus linear programming and Black engineers in the United States.
2. Stick with It: Mastering The Art of Adherence by Lee J. Colan, Ph.D and Julie Davis-Colan (2013)
The authors, a power couple in the business motivational field, offer practical advice for expanding marketplace success and motivating employees. Use this book to help develop a plan for boosting the morale and the productivity of your company’s mailroom staff.
3. Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life by Kevin Cashman (3rd edition, 2017)
This motivational work helps analyze psychological factors underlying leadership. A must-have reference and educational tool for aspiring mailroom managers seeking to empower and inspire everyone in their workplace!
4. The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by Scott Galloway (2017)
A business professor analyzes four of the modern world’s most successful and powerful commercial enterprises in a controversial yet engaging way. Mailroom executives whose companies anticipate expansion will appreciate this iconoclastic perspective on businesses today.
5. Mailroom Supervisor Work Log: Work Journal, Work Diary, Work Log (2017)
While technically not a book, this item available from online retailers provides a great manual entry journal for mailroom managers. It supplies a valuable tool for busy managers in some situations. Record private entries and/or backup mail delivery or receipt records discreetly.
Essential Reading
These works represent just a handful of the insightful books and materials available for mailroom reference desks today. Consider adding some of these titles to your office library. Reading offers a great way to enhance work spaces!
