Comments on: Fewer meetings should lead to more “Flow.” http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/14/fewer-meetings-should-lead-to-more-flow/ Individuals — Companies — Industries: How We Work Now. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:31:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Time is the resource, but attention is the problem. -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/14/fewer-meetings-should-lead-to-more-flow/comment-page-1/#comment-9729 Time is the resource, but attention is the problem. -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:01:22 +0000 http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/14/fewer-meetings-should-lead-to-more-flow/#comment-9729 [...] talked here before (more than once) about the work of Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. His bestselling book Flow [...] [...] talked here before (more than once) about the work of Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. His bestselling book Flow [...]

]]> By: One big workflow. -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/14/fewer-meetings-should-lead-to-more-flow/comment-page-1/#comment-5523 One big workflow. -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:17:39 +0000 http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/14/fewer-meetings-should-lead-to-more-flow/#comment-5523 [...] do I waste my time? How can I arrange my time in bigger chunks so I can enjoy longer periods of Flow and get more [...] [...] do I waste my time? How can I arrange my time in bigger chunks so I can enjoy longer periods of Flow and get more [...]

]]> By: Tim Walker http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/14/fewer-meetings-should-lead-to-more-flow/comment-page-1/#comment-2503 Tim Walker Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:14:20 +0000 http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/14/fewer-meetings-should-lead-to-more-flow/#comment-2503 Good thoughts as usual, Dan. Key idea I'm taking away: just because you *can* doesn't mean you *should*. Good thoughts as usual, Dan. Key idea I’m taking away: just because you *can* doesn’t mean you *should*.

]]> By: Dan Markovitz http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/14/fewer-meetings-should-lead-to-more-flow/comment-page-1/#comment-2494 Dan Markovitz Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:16:49 +0000 http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/14/fewer-meetings-should-lead-to-more-flow/#comment-2494 The other aspect of Flow is that we accomplish more when we're "in the zone." By allowing interruptions, we condemn ourselves to lower productivity and longer hours, just to accomplish the same amount. My brother is an architect who fully understands the concept of flow: he needs to crank up the music and spend a minimum of 2-3 hours to really do any decent design work. Unfortunately, he also can't say no to interruptions, and he allows everyone to interrupt him when for any reason at all. The result is that he says he "can't draw at the office," and instead goes to work every Saturday. Only then can he get the uninterrupted 2-3 hours he needs. He's an extreme case, but how many of us hamstring ourselves with Twitter, email alerts, Blackberry vibrations, etc.? Just because you can drink beer at 10am doesn't mean that you should. And just because you can be electronically tethered to everyone in the office all the time doesn't mean you should. The other aspect of Flow is that we accomplish more when we’re “in the zone.” By allowing interruptions, we condemn ourselves to lower productivity and longer hours, just to accomplish the same amount.

My brother is an architect who fully understands the concept of flow: he needs to crank up the music and spend a minimum of 2-3 hours to really do any decent design work. Unfortunately, he also can’t say no to interruptions, and he allows everyone to interrupt him when for any reason at all. The result is that he says he “can’t draw at the office,” and instead goes to work every Saturday. Only then can he get the uninterrupted 2-3 hours he needs.

He’s an extreme case, but how many of us hamstring ourselves with Twitter, email alerts, Blackberry vibrations, etc.?

Just because you can drink beer at 10am doesn’t mean that you should. And just because you can be electronically tethered to everyone in the office all the time doesn’t mean you should.

]]> By: Tim Walker http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/14/fewer-meetings-should-lead-to-more-flow/comment-page-1/#comment-2493 Tim Walker Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:51:45 +0000 http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/14/fewer-meetings-should-lead-to-more-flow/#comment-2493 Ron -- Maybe lots of people have written entire books by focusing 15 or 20 minutes at a time. But how many *great* books have been written this way? Many writers report that they need deep pools of time to swim around in so that they can work their ideas into shape. When I find myself defending my own multitasking ways, the defense tends to be rooted in how I *feel* about multitasking -- i.e. that I like doing it. It's very hard (it might be impossible) for me to argue legitimately that multitasking is better for me in terms of *results*. Ron — Maybe lots of people have written entire books by focusing 15 or 20 minutes at a time. But how many *great* books have been written this way? Many writers report that they need deep pools of time to swim around in so that they can work their ideas into shape.

When I find myself defending my own multitasking ways, the defense tends to be rooted in how I *feel* about multitasking — i.e. that I like doing it. It’s very hard (it might be impossible) for me to argue legitimately that multitasking is better for me in terms of *results*.

]]> By: Cloudy Thinking » Blog Archive » Tim Walker: Fewer meetings should lead to more “Flow” http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/14/fewer-meetings-should-lead-to-more-flow/comment-page-1/#comment-2484 Cloudy Thinking » Blog Archive » Tim Walker: Fewer meetings should lead to more “Flow” Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:35:19 +0000 http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/14/fewer-meetings-should-lead-to-more-flow/#comment-2484 [...] Tim Walker writes about the need for interruption free time, and suggests that then plethora of meetings in a normal business day is not productive. [...] [...] Tim Walker writes about the need for interruption free time, and suggests that then plethora of meetings in a normal business day is not productive. [...]

]]> By: ron k jeffries http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/14/fewer-meetings-should-lead-to-more-flow/comment-page-1/#comment-2483 ron k jeffries Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:25:50 +0000 http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/14/fewer-meetings-should-lead-to-more-flow/#comment-2483 Although a hard-core multitasker myself, my experience suggests that yes, we need distraction free quiet times in order to create something substantial. Lots of people however have written entire books by focusing for 15 to 30 minutes at a time. I will order and read Flow. Thanks for your post. -ron k jeffries Although a hard-core multitasker myself, my experience suggests that yes, we need distraction free quiet times in order to create something substantial.

Lots of people however have written entire books by focusing for 15 to 30 minutes at a time.

I will order and read Flow. Thanks for your post.
-ron k jeffries

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