Focus
"The bottom line is that how well an employee can focus might now be more important than how knowledgeable he is."
Marketing technopologist and overall digital enthousiast. Working as an interactive strategist by day, creating the next big thing by night.
I’m not wishing the Internet away. It has become so integral to my work — to my life — that I honestly can’t recall what I did without it. But it has allowed us to reflexively indulge every passing interest, to expect answers to every fleeting question, to believe that if we search long enough, surf a little further, we can hit the dry land of knowing “everything that happens” and that such knowledge is both possible and desirable. In the end, though, there is just more sea, and as alluring as we can find the perpetual pursuit of little thoughts, the net result may only be to prevent us from forming the big ones.
Stefan Sagmeister presenting at TED:
... we spend our first 25 years learning, the next 40 years working, and the last 15 retired. I thought it might be helpful to cut off five of those retirement years and intersperse them in between those working years. That's clearly enjoyable for myself, but probably even more important is that the work that comes out of those years flows back into the company and the society at larger rather than benefiting just a grandchild or two.
People who are regularly bombarded with several streams of electronic information do not pay attention, control their memory or switch from one job to another as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time, a group of Stanford researchers has found.
