I Don’t Want to Be Hyperconnected…

… although when I do need to connect, it should be fast and easy.

I don’t believe being hyperconnected makes you more productive. I’ve worked with people who are online all of the time, through e-mail, text and IM, and they so busy connecting, they never get any work done.

More decision-makers bring less efficiency

This reminds me of a client who let every member on its board of directors have input into every press release.

It’s the other Parkinson’s: the progressive degeneration of a committee’s ability to make decisions as the committee adds more members.

[via ScienceNews]
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Is Your Corporate Culture Conducive to Innovation?

Do people have time to actually do their work, or are they sacrificing the needs of their own projects on the altar of “responsiveness”? If so, you might want to first have a conversation about whether these habits are actually helping your company move forward.

Dan Markovitz observes that many organizations, no matter how much money they throw at a problem or how many gurus they bring in, are not truly able to innovate because they simply do not have enough time to think.

Forget about hiring the business guru [TimeBack Management]

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