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Sorry for the interruption

Published June 22nd, 2008

Over at Marci Alboher’s always excellent blog, author Maggie Jackson shares some interesting thoughts about the modern workplace’s culture of distractions.   Among other findings, Jackson reports that:• “The average knowledge worker switches tasks every three minutes, and, once distracted, a worker takes nearly a half-hour to resume the original task.”  • “Interruptions and the requisite recovery time now consume […]

Obama’s one-word equity

Published June 10th, 2008

I was thinking about the business implications of the Obama juggernaut the other day when a friend said to me, “I can’t think of the word ‘hope’ any more without thinking of the guy.’”  Something about that comment stuck in my head.Then this afternoon, I was going through some piles of clippings and ran across […]

Ho-ho-ha-ha-ha

Published April 29th, 2008

John Cleese discovers laughter yoga and visits the same laughter club that I visited in Mumbai and wrote about in AWNM.  Fun viewing.    

(HT: BoingBoing)

An art gallery inside an accounting firm?

Published April 26th, 2008

Don’t laugh.  Vitale Caturano in Boston has one.

Lots of trash talk

Published March 8th, 2008

The only good news at Reagan National Airport

Published March 8th, 2008

D.C. garbage

Published March 6th, 2008

Light posting — mea culpa

Published March 5th, 2008

Why shouldn’t a gas station bathroom be beautiful?

Published February 21st, 2008

Book jacket sneak preview

Published February 14th, 2008
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