Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Have a Messy Desk? Congrats, You're More Productive

Sponsored by publisher Little, Brown and Co., the competition promoted "A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder," by Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman, a new book that argues neatness is overrated, costs money, wastes time and quashes creativity."We think that being more organized and ordered and neat is a good thing and it turns out, that's not always the case," said Freedman."Most of us are messy, and most of us are messy at a level that works very, very well for us," he said in an interview. "In most cases, if we got a lot neater and more organized, we would be less effective."

Have a Messy Desk? Congrats, You're More Productive - News and Analysis by PC Magazine

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1 comment:

  1. Hi David,

    I know this isn't particularly related to your post (which, btw, I'm relieved to hear my messy desk isn't slowing me down!), but I just read in the Washington Post that Showtime has ordered six episodes of "This American Life" on their channel. You can watch the first episode at www.sho.com/thisamericanlife

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