Go Ahead, Take that Break - Whitney Johnson. Make Time to Prioritize - Management Tip of the Day - March 15, 2012. The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time - Tony Schwartz. By Tony Schwartz | 8:53 AM March 14, 2012 Why is it that between 25% and 50% of people report feeling overwhelmed or burned out at work? It’s not just the number of hours we’re working, but also the fact that we spend too many continuous hours juggling too many things at the same time. What we’ve lost, above all, are stopping points, finish lines and boundaries. Technology has blurred them beyond recognition. Tell the truth: Do you answer email during conference calls (and sometimes even during calls with one other person)? The biggest cost — assuming you don’t crash — is to your productivity. But most insidiously, it’s because if you’re always doing something, you’re relentlessly burning down your available reservoir of energy over the course of every day, so you have less available with every passing hour.
I know this from my own experience. If you’re a manager, here are three policies worth promoting: 1. 2. 3. It’s also up to individuals to set their own boundaries. 1. 2. 3. Relief from information overload | David Fraser, PhD. The email Inbox just gets bigger. The paper in-tray still stacks up dauntingly too. And that’s not to mention all the other channels: LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Skype text chat, SMS messages on mobile/cell phones, and StumbleUpon to mention only some. Oh I nearly forgot Google+. And then there’s Facebook’s LinkedIn “me too”, otherwise known as Branchout.
Ever feel you’re caught in the middle of a communication arms race? So what’s to do? The net effect of all this communication could be the well-known phrase “information overload,” but does that description really help us? Perhaps we need to take charge of our attention and decide where to direct our interest. Of course… We can learn various practical techniques for processing information quickly, and they’re very valuable too. There’s another way… Information flow is a manifestation of a relationship of some kind. How to take a relationship deeper to a more profound level?
Too simple? In Tough Situations, Unplug and Wait - Management Tip of the Day - February 14, 2012.