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Archives for March 2016

Managing Others’ Perceptions

By Mark Shead Leave a Comment

A group of scientists were given a number of rats to test on mazes. Scientists just love running rats through mazes. Anyway, half the rats were normal. They were told that the other half were "super rats bred to be much smarter than normal rodents. In another experiment, teachers were given a classroom of students. Half of the students were normal and half had an abnormally high IQ. Neither of these experiments were designed to test students or rats. They had already been tested. All of the rats were just normal lab rats and all of the students were normal school children. There was no significant difference between the intelligence of the two groups of rats or between the two groups of … [Read more...] about Managing Others’ Perceptions

Paperless–The Wrong Goal

By Mark Shead 3 Comments

A paperless office sounds wonderful, but becoming paperless is a very poor goal. Becoming paperless is a side effect of creating an efficient workflow. If you set out to create a paperless office, you'll find that there are all kinds of scanners and software to help you move your files from paper format to digital files, but just changing out your filing cabinet for hard drives doesn't automatically make you more efficient. The reason so many people pursue a paperless office is because it is easy to understand. It isn't hard to understand the idea of reading files on the computer instead of on paper. Workflow improvements are a lot harder to visualize, but if you are trying to actually … [Read more...] about Paperless–The Wrong Goal

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