Content tagged with "Leadership"

From Once Interrupted, Give It Your Full Attention - Admired Leadership:

Good leaders do their best to prevent distractions and avoid interruptions.

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But no matter how much planning goes into eliminating distractions and arranging the physical work environment to enhance focus, people (and pets) interrupt the flow.

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Once interrupted, it often makes the most sense to give the source of the disturbance your full attention. If it’s going to take a few minutes to redeploy your focus anyway, why not achieve the equally important goal of doing what leaders are meant to do: focus on the problems and issues of others.

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Inundated by 'quick questions' that prevent you from carrying out your main role? Slack has made it very easy to invade your focus time and before slack people would turn up at your desk in the office and say "can I borrow you for a sec...?"

The big problem, especially for software engineers and deep knowledge workers, is that these "quick questions" and just being borrowed comes with context switching cost. The person who asked it may not realise that their 2 minute question just cost you half an hour of work time because you need to get back into the zone (or a nerdier analogy - you need to page the contents of your brain out to disk and loading it back into memory is slow work...)

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