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Four Habits to Severely Undermine the Quality of your Brainwork
Theo Compernolle MD., PhD, Consultant, Belgium, Member
Thanks to IT, the brain of the Brain worker is in continuous interaction with other brains that stimulate and feed it.
Never forget, however, that electronic systems only hold DATA and sometimes INFORMATION if the data is ordered in a meaningful way.
The only place where KNOWLEDGE and INSIGHT reside is in the brains of people. If you want to optimize knowledge and insight of yourself and your brain workers, keep an eye on the way you and your company use modern technology, to get the best of it, without letting it undermine the best of your brains.
The way we use this beautiful technology, however, has several drawbacks even to the extent that it often makes us much less productive than we would be without them!
Problems with modern information technologies arise mainly in four ways:
1. By Multitasking
2. By Information Overload
3. By Being Always On
4. By Continuous Background Stress these cause.
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