04/27/2018

How Managers Can Help Teams Focus on the Work That Matters

Incessant distractions are an intentional feature of our highly connected world

Most of us aren't paid to go to meetings, answer emails or check social media. We're paid to do work that requires our focused attention and mental effort -- deep work.

But managers often see mundane tasks or "shallow work" claiming so much of their employees' time and attention -- and their own -- that it pushes deep work to the back of their calendars. Or off them entirely.

Cal Newport, a Georgetown University professor and author of Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (and, full disclosure, the son of Gallup's Editor-in-Chief Frank Newport), says that deep work is what creates value and generates high-quality work quickly.

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