Most people answer, without hesitation, that their scarcest resource is time. It certainly is finite, but I would argue that time isn’t actually your scarcest resource. After all, everyone has the same amount of time, and yet individual differences in productivity can be enormous. A better answer might be your attention — your personal capacity …
Profhacker recently posted on The Chronicle of Higher Education quoting a Guardian article concerning the futility of time management. To set the stage, the article uses the example of Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero as a prime example of a time management strategy that seems helpful on the surface but really exists as an exercise in …
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely recently experimented with how people interact with email and the results were surprisingly unsurprising! Not all emails are equally important You see, science is beginning to understand the impact of email on our productivity. As an example, Ariely looked at the importance of email to most people and reported his findings …
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Most knowledge workers have a complicated relationship with email. On the one hand, it makes communication and information sharing quick and easy. On the other hand, the volume of email we’re expected to respond to on a given day can quickly get out of control if we aren’t careful. We often find ourselves checking and …
