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In the long run, information about the outside may be the most important information managers need to do their work. At the same time, it is the one that still has to be organized.

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The progress we normally chalk up to working harder may actually be due to working smarter.

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When it comes to… endeavors that depend heavily on rule-based logic, calculation, and sequential thinking – comptuers are simply better, faster, and stronger.

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We must perform work that overseas knowledge workers can’t do cheaper, that computers can’t do faster, and that satisfies the aesthetic, emotional, and spiritual demands of a prosperous time.

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Meaning has become a central aspect of our work and our lives. Pursuing meaning obviously is no simple task.

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Whether you call it being multifaceted or being fragmented, at its heart networked individualism is about diffusion.

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In updating our definitions of family for a new age, we’ve traded security for freedom and swapped the group for a loose network of kin.

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Yet as well as coping with a high number of interruptions, workers have a tough time getting back on track once they are disconnected.

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…nearly 45 percent of workplace interruptions are self-initiated.

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…used well and nurtured carefully, our networks of attention are our foremost means to shaping our lives.

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