Comments on: 5 Steps To Help Your IT Team Concentrate http://www.retrospector.com/2006/08/04/5-steps-to-help-your-it-team-concentrate-step-1/ A hindsight perspective on the everlasting trail of improvement. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:42:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Kitkat http://www.retrospector.com/2006/08/04/5-steps-to-help-your-it-team-concentrate-step-1/#comment-2424 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:01:45 +0000 http://www.retrospector.com/2006/08/04/5-steps-to-help-your-it-team-concentrate-step-1/#comment-2424 Very good thoughts. The "appropriate atmosphere" would be something like the working environment in Google :) Very good thoughts. The “appropriate atmosphere” would be something like the working environment in Google :)

]]> by: Kai MacTane http://www.retrospector.com/2006/08/04/5-steps-to-help-your-it-team-concentrate-step-1/#comment-2421 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:12:44 +0000 http://www.retrospector.com/2006/08/04/5-steps-to-help-your-it-team-concentrate-step-1/#comment-2421 "In hack mode". I also tend to declare myself a "ninja coder" when I pull off something particularly bad-ass, so I suppose "ninja mode" might work, too. And it has cool points out the wazoo, as terminology goes. Indeed, "ninja" has all sorts of possibel applications. Now, if you'll pardon me, I need to put on my headphones, stop browsing the Web, and go all ninja on this bug... (see what I mean?) “In hack mode”.

I also tend to declare myself a “ninja coder” when I pull off something particularly bad-ass, so I suppose “ninja mode” might work, too. And it has cool points out the wazoo, as terminology goes.

Indeed, “ninja” has all sorts of possibel applications. Now, if you’ll pardon me, I need to put on my headphones, stop browsing the Web, and go all ninja on this bug… (see what I mean?)

]]> by: Retrospector http://www.retrospector.com/2006/08/04/5-steps-to-help-your-it-team-concentrate-step-1/#comment-2418 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:09:56 +0000 http://www.retrospector.com/2006/08/04/5-steps-to-help-your-it-team-concentrate-step-1/#comment-2418 Patrick, excellent reference! I may just have to pick up a copy of that since it applies to a very significant portion of this series. Patrick, excellent reference! I may just have to pick up a copy of that since it applies to a very significant portion of this series.

]]> by: Patrick McElhaney http://www.retrospector.com/2006/08/04/5-steps-to-help-your-it-team-concentrate-step-1/#comment-2414 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:11:26 +0000 http://www.retrospector.com/2006/08/04/5-steps-to-help-your-it-team-concentrate-step-1/#comment-2414 Psycholoigst Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has been studying this kind of concentration for decades. His cool term of choice is "flow." <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?link_code=ur2&tag=theretrospect-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&location=%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060920432">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060920432</a> Psycholoigst Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has been studying this kind of concentration for decades. His cool term of choice is “flow.”

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]]> by: Retrospector http://www.retrospector.com/2006/08/04/5-steps-to-help-your-it-team-concentrate-step-1/#comment-2291 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:09:58 +0000 http://www.retrospector.com/2006/08/04/5-steps-to-help-your-it-team-concentrate-step-1/#comment-2291 Thanks Peter. I've made sure to incorporate your points into one of series follow-ups. Being constantly connected is definitely one way to hinder concentration. Thanks Peter. I’ve made sure to incorporate your points into one of series follow-ups. Being constantly connected is definitely one way to hinder concentration.

]]> by: Peter Kua http://www.retrospector.com/2006/08/04/5-steps-to-help-your-it-team-concentrate-step-1/#comment-2159 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:39:41 +0000 http://www.retrospector.com/2006/08/04/5-steps-to-help-your-it-team-concentrate-step-1/#comment-2159 Good thoughts. May I also add that unlimited web surfing privileges and being constantly connected (IM, emails, etc) would cause the team to lose focus if those activites are not related to work :) Good thoughts. May I also add that unlimited web surfing privileges and being constantly connected
(IM, emails, etc) would cause the team to lose focus if those activites are not
related to work :)

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