A Bias for Action: How Effective Managers Harness Their Willpower, Achieve ... - Heike Bruch, Heike Bruch Sumantra Ghoshal - Google Books - 1 views
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Tomoko Matsukawa on 24 Nov 12This is not necessarily related to technology but think is relevant to the concern presented by Dr Turkle on 'multitasking'. Many of us and current management have fostered the bad habit of multitasking, responding to the expectation that we will respond immediately, seek to keep ourselves busy to reward our brain... This famous book by Ghoshal introduces the concept of 'active non-action'. Figure 2-1 provides 4 types of managerial behaviors (the detached, procrastinators, frenzied and the purposeful). how many of us are being 'the purposeful' today?