You have to concentrate to focus … you have to work at ignoring distractions.
Wikipedia defines Focus: selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things.
Today’s large organizations often are open concept cube farms. There has always been a lot of things in this type of environment to distract you or break your concentration and this is getting more pervasive in today’s connected state. With facebook, twitter, personal e-mail, IM (corporate and outside), drop-ins, online banking, loading Tim cards via smart phones, people walking by etc… it is hard to FOCUS. But it is not just your typical outside distractions. I find corporate processes heavy in templates and corresponding data mappings can slow down the works and create a mesh in itself that is tiring to wade through. Continue reading “Focus Helps Project Management”