Creativity or Creactivity?
Time? Do you have it or does it have you?
Recent studies have shown that workers get an average 156 e-mails a day. And when they're not reading or deleting emails, they're switching tasks every three minutes.
We're spending more than a quarter of our workday dealing with interruptions and their needed recovery time. Ouch!
The effect of all this firefighting? A pronounced drop in creativity and innovation. Read more about Terese Amabile's research on this topic here.
Posted by Mitch Ditkoff at July 26, 2008 02:02 AM
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