Results tagged “BusinessWeek” from Knowledge Jolt with Jack

"It's official: The average knowledge worker has the attention span of a sparrow." But the solution isn't through technology alone.

At least two items in my stream today have to do with effective meetings. One comes from CIO.com, Eight Steps to More Effective Meetings, and the other from the BusinessWeek Climbing the Ladder podcast on Managing Teams.

Business Week has an article that talks about A Struggle Between Efficiency And Creativity at 3M. It's a classic problem: tighten down operations and innovation gets squelched.

BusinessWeek's Oct 3rd cover story, "The Real Reasons You're Working So Hard..." is an interesting article on the history of long hours and how the problem is spreading outside of the U.S. It also covers a number of possible solutions.