The New Work Ethics

Lifehacker and Amy Leblanc comment on this interesting post regarding the new  work ethics by Mike Elgan found on Internet News: http://www.internetnews.com/commentary/print.php/3793561
Quoted @ Lifehacker:

A person who works six hours a day but with total focus has an enormous advantage over a 12-hour-per-day workaholic who’s “multi-tasking” all day, answering every phone call, constantly checking Facebook and Twitter, and indulging every interruption. It’s time we upgraded our work ethic for the age we’re living in, not our grandparents’ age. Hard work is still a virtue, but now takes a distant second place to the new determinant of success or failure in the age of Internet distractions: Control of attention. Hard work is dead. Are you paying attention?

via – http://lifehacker.com/5121914/controlling-your-attention-is-the-new-work-ethic

Quoted @Amy Leblanc

Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book called “Outliers,” made a statement as profound as it was accurate:

Control of attention is the ultimate individual power

via (linked at lifehacker) – http://www.amyleblanc.com/2008/12/the-new-work-ethic-just-paying-attention