I recently asked an executive I coached how many emails she received each day. “Five hundred,” she replied. ”But I don’t read any of them. If I did, I wouldn’t really be doing my job. Given the work I do, my challenge isn’t obtaining information but figuring out how to push information away so that I don’t suffer from information overload. I need time to think.”
The Case for Slacking Off
Doing nothing is socially unacceptable. That’s why we’re so afraid of it.
December 10, 2013