
Cal Newport on knowledge work, Part 1: The concentration deficit
HBS Managing the Future of Work
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A World Without Email - How Can We Interdict It?
David Allen's new book, A World Without Email, looks at the impact of communications overload. He argues that knowledge work has embraced too strongly this notion of workflow autonomy. It was in that culture of individual autonomy that work structures fell into a Nash equilibrium where it was the lowest common denominator," he says.
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