The Working Week 61: Jurgen Wolff on Focus

Focus. We all need it, but for many of us, it is a difficult skill to acquire – particularly given the information overload we all seem to be suffering from today.

The age of 24/7 connectivity and constant demands has lead to frantic multi-tasking and fire-fighting. The result: lots of activity, a loss of focus and not much achievement. So what can we do about it? How can we learn to focus better?

That's the big question Wayne tackles on The Working Week this week as he is joined by author, screen writer and creativity guru, Jurgen Wolff, whose new book Focus: The Power of Targeted Thinking, spells out how to achieve a state of flow that can lead to maximum achievement in minimum time.

Jurgen is the editor and publisher of the creativity e-bulletin, Brainstorm and writes a monthly column for Management-Issues.

They explore some powerful time management techniques which work for everyone – not just left-brain people who are already organized and see things in an analytical way – and that age-old question, how to overcome procrastination.

Finally, Jurgen tells Wayne about the alter-ego strategy - a kind of method-acting for managers. But if you want to learn about that, you'll need to listen to this weeks' show.

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