Busyness = Bad Business

Annie Fisher at Fortune recommends we "slack off" more. We are multi-tasking too much and "the "time cost" of refocusing your attention may be only a few seconds with each switch, but the researchers found that, over time, it reduced people's total efficiency by 20% to 40%."

Cancel as many meetings as possible. Throw away that Blackberry. Free up time for creative, innovative thinking.

Of course she has to include mandatory mention of innovations at Google

"We want to take as much hurry and worry out of people's lives as we can, because a relaxed state of mind unleashes creativity," says Stacy Sullivan, the company's HR director. "And everybody's on flextime here, so we don't reward face time or working super-long hours. We just measure results."

But overall a good read...