Learned something new today. Napoleon had his secretary leave all non-urgent mail unopened for three weeks — and most of it resolved itself without him ever touching it.
There’s a productivity concept named after this called the Napoleon Technique, and honestly it just makes sense. Sometimes the best move is to leave something alone and let it sort itself out.
At the end of that time it was unnecessary to reply to four-fifths of these communications. — Bourrienne, Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte