<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">David Week (Assai)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dew@assai.com.au">dew@assai.com.au</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:40 AM<br>Subject: Peak hierarchy<br>To: Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>><br><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span><span style="line-height:14px!important;color:black!important;text-align:left!important">QUOTE:</span></span><div>
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Ray's keynote address focused on the disconnect between what science knows and what business does. For example, in order for people to remain productive, people need to be kept in a 'reward' state. This isn't necessarily about money or accolades, rather, it refers to how the brain is organised. At any given moment, we can be either calm and engaged, moving towards an experience, or we can feel threatened and want to move away from an experience – in other words, so stressed we feel pushed into a fight or flight state. The problem is that many workplaces are set up in such a way that people are kept uncertain, worried about status, with little autonomy. <b>A command-and-control hierarchy actually prevents people from being productive.</b></p>
<p style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);direction:ltr;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);margin:0px 0px 1em">Science tells us that we can do only one thing at a time, and yet more and more demands are heaped on our heads. We are asked to do more with less support. Time is fractured by long meetings and constant interruptions. Multitasking is a myth and yet many businesses require their employees to switch tasks all day long. Not only does this tire the brain, leading to increasing ineffectiveness, but it can take up to 23 minutes to get back into the thinking space you were in before the interruption.</p>
<p style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);direction:ltr;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);margin:0px 0px 1em"><b>"It's a wonder we get anything done at all," Ray says.</b></p>
</span><span><a href="http://neurocapability.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/disconnect-what-science-knows-versus-what-business-does/" target="_blank">http://neurocapability.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/disconnect-what-science-knows-versus-what-business-does/</a>
<br></span><span style="line-height:14px!important;color:black!important;text-align:left!important"><br></span></span></div></div></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..</b></div>
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