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AnnotationsAnnotationsMarch 21, 2007 “Are You a Slob? Good, You’re More Productive”After enduring many years of barbs about my workspace from various co-workers and bosses, I feel affirmed by this report from the Reuters news service. One of my favorite quotes is ” Show me someone with a neat desk and I will show you someone with too much time on their hands.” Sorry, I love all my neatnik friends and don’t want them to change but, I have to admit to a case of sour grapes. Messy Deskers Unite! March 20, 2007 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Karen Jackson would be the first to admit her desk looks like a disaster area. Her stacks of papers and photographs are so sloppy that the Texas schoolteacher won first place in a contest to find America’s messiest desk. Sponsored by publisher Little, Brown and Co., the competition promoted “A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder,” by Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman, a new book that argues neatness is overrated, costs money, wastes time and quashes creativity. “We think that being more organized and ordered and neat is a good thing and it turns out, that’s not always the case,” said Freedman. “Most of us are messy, and most of us are messy at a level that works very, very well for us,” he said in an interview. “In most cases, if we got a lot neater and more organized, we would be less effective.” … MORE No Comments »RSS feed for comments on this post. Leave a comment
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