Fascinating Facts for Organizers
Here are some timeless facts you can use it talks or with clients:
- A week day edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 17th century England.
- Information Anxiety, Richard Saul Wurman.
- People who multitask are less efficient than those who focus on one project at a time. Time lost switching among tasks increases with the complexity of the tasks.
Study in the Journal Of Experimental Psychology, as written in the Star-Telegram.com 3/1/03 - Workers productivity decreases by 20 to 40% every time they multitask or “task switching”
University of Michigan study, 2001 - The document for a Boeing 747 weighs more than the plane itself.
- Jay Davidson, Office Systems magazine, March, 1995
- 25 percent of all resolutions fail within the first week and only 19 percent last for two years.
- 2001 survey conducted by Texas Instruments, published in its Work and Family alumni newsletter
If you have any fun facts (and can cite the source) please add yours here!
– Allison
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