Fact Friday
Fact Friday: Meetings and Productivity
“45% of senior executives felt that employees would be more productive if meetings were banned once a week.”
[Office Team · Let's Not Meet · 5.7.2009]
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Fact Friday Quote: Order & Disorder
“Order marches with weighty and measured strides; disorder is always in a hurry.” ~Napoleon Bonaparte [Thinkexist.com]
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Fact Friday: IKEA, Closets, and Sex
“In a recent survey of Vancouverites, Montrealers and Torontonians, 31% of the urbanites polled claimed they felt more satisfied after reorganizing their closet than after having sex. If given the choice, the majority of those surveyed said they would choose more closet space (30%) over a bigger kitchen (17%) or an extra bathroom (11%).” [Survey [...]
Fact Friday Quote: Simplicity & Harmony
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ~Albert Einstein
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Fact Friday: Juggling Tasks
People who multitask are actually less efficient than those who focus on one project at a time, according to a study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.
[New Studies Show Pitfalls Of Doing Too Much at Once · Sue Shellenbarger · The Wall Street Journal · 02.27.2003 · Source: NAPO]
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Fact Friday Quote: “The Shovunda”
Do you know about ‘The Shovunda?’ That’s when you shove stuff under here and shove stuff under there.
~Lee Silber, Author, during the Organizing Telesummit 2010, explaining what some people do when company’s coming over
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Fact Friday: Ready for Dinner Guests?
In the June 2009 NAPO public quick poll, 1,397 people answered the following question: How long would it take you to get your house ready for dinner guests? The results are as follows:
65% said “4 hours or fewer” (913 votes)
11% said “I’ll never invite anyone inside” (151 votes)
10% said “8 hours” (142 votes)
7% [...]
Fact Friday: Brainpower
“Managing two mental tasks at once reduces the brainpower available for either task.” [The Awful Truth Behind Multitasking · Avery Articles]
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Fact Friday (Funny) Quote: “The Office,” Part II
“If you do your spring cleaning in January, guess what you don’t have to do in the spring?” ~Michael Scott (character played by Steve Carell) [The Office · "The Secret" · 2006]
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Fact Friday: Year’s End
We hope you find today’s “Fact Friday” inspirational, and wish you a “going on” filled with joy, success, and organized spaces!
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland, American Author [ThinkExist.com]
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