Barriers Quote by Susan Cain

“Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity.”

— Susan Cain

“...the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity...What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between…

— Susan Cain

“Busyness as Proxy for Productivity: In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many…

— Cal Newport

“interrupting technology workers is easy, because the consequences are invisible to almost everyone, even though the negative impact to productivity may be far greater…

— Gene Kim

“Researchers estimate that workers are interrupted every 11 minutes and then spend almost a third of their day recovering from these distractions. And yet…

— Gary Keller

Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office distractions eat…

— David Rock

The distraction, particularly of technology, impedes the innovative process. And when you add to that the distraction of working with colleagues who are in…

— David Livermore

Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.

— Robin Sharma

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

— Brendan Behan

The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the…

— Peter Drucker

“The sooner we associate long hours and multitasking with incompetence and carelessness the better. The next time you hear boasts of executives pulling an…

— Margaret Heffernan

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

— W. Somerset Maugham