From Distraction to Distinction Business Articles | March 12 Yasiel Puig Youth Jersey , 2011 Tim Ringo, Partner at Maxxim Consulting, examines the important lessons that organizations can learn from the distractions of modern communication technologies and how these technologies can be a bonus if controlled properly.
From Distraction to Distinction by Tim Ringo, Partner at Maxxim Consulting
One of the important lessons organizations can learn from the many distractions of modern communication technologies is about why they are distracting. Educator James Herndon Corey Seager Youth Jersey , author of?How to Survive in Your Native Land, once wrote about a similar problem he faced when teaching in parts of rural America: Dogs would wander into his classroom. Why, Herndon asked, couldn?t the kids just let the dog be instead of chasing after it and disrupting class?
The answer was that the dog was interesting and the classroom lecture on ancient Egypt was not. The same thing happens today with conference calls Jackie Robinson Youth Jersey , meetings and presentations. Too many meetings get planned for inadequate reasons ? status calls that aren?t really necessary or relevant for all the people on the line, for example. Because of this, people will naturally want to catch up on e-mails or send instant messages to friends and colleagues