Organize IT Recap: Instant Messaging At Work, Sleep Myths [Organize IT]

Organize IT recap for 20th June 2008.

  • The amount of sleep you get is a big issue when it comes to your health, and the time you get up in the morning is equally debated in personal development circles. Many blogs argue that getting up early makes you more productive. Been there, tried it, doesn’t work for me. On Monday I am going to be discussing the myths related to productivity and sleep. Until then Time has a great look at recent studies suggesting that sleeping less than 6.5 hours or more than 8 hours is actually bad for you, completely breaking my belief that I was getting an healthy amount of sleep every night. What are your sleep patterns?
  • It might surprise you to know that South Park, the often funny, often crude cartoon series (twelve years old and counting!) can actually teach us a few (sensible) things about business. Twenty five whole tips in fact.
  • Instant messaging can apparently improve workplace productivity, because there are less distractions associated with it. I personally find this interesting because I’ve always found instant messaging to be very distracting in my personal life, so assumed the same would apply at work (not that I have the option to IM where I am). Nowadays I have totally cut out the use of programs like MSN and very carefully limit my time spent on social networking sites. Do you use instant messaging at work? How do you find it compares to conventional phonecalls and emails?

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Original post here: James

20 June 2008 | Business, Career, GTD, Health, Recap, Work, south-park | Comments

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