Is Attention a tool of the Mind? Check if Attention Allocation occurs at the proper choice points. Choice points occur when someone terminates a particular task and must determine which task to do next. Most people don’t think about Attention, but value it and desire simple means to deliver more effective output from their Attention…

Attention Efficiencies Attention Allocation Efficiency (AAE) is the degree to which people allocate their quantum Attention energy beam to the “right” places at the “right” time. Attention Efficiency Ratio (AER) is the ratio between useful, valuable, or effective output to the total Attention energy input into any system or systems. Questions are: can I delegate…

Aspects of Attention with regard to the Matters at Hand II Managers who care about their scarcest plus potentially richest resources might consider the use of: education. ways to assess, Attention-getting techniques, controls to limit volume of information, protection against useless information. More information requires more delegation. The ability to prioritize information, to focus and…

Aspects of Attention with regard to the Matters at Hand I An information fatique syndrome occurs when there is: irritability and anger, pain in the stomach and muscles, an inability to make decisions or cope in other ways, frequent feelings of helplessness and lethargy, loss of energy and enthusiasm for leisure activities, an inability to…

Information + Knowledge Today’s imbalance between all the incoming information and the time available for processing has become everybody’s problem. Anyone is now an information+knowledge provider. Many people process information for a living. The production of information+knowledge and the effective allocation of their Attention particles is all they have to offer. From a viewpoint of…

Operating in Survival Mode? If a corporation operates in Survival mode, then the Allocation of Attention energy to strategy might not be enough. Action might be taken as well. How about: bringing in a consultant to shake up the minds of management, having a management retreat to focus on strategic matters, focusing management minds on threatening…

Aspects of Attention in the context of Corporate Management Don’t or do many people look for acceptance, autonomy, and admiration before they orient their Attention toward a task? Attention leadership contains 4 elements: Maintaining the Attention of their clients,  Directing the Attention of those who follow them, Attracting the right kind of Attention to themselves,…

The world economy combines and intertwines five very different economies: the products or stuff economy, the digital, bits or fluff economy, the attention economy, the experiences economy, the transformations economy. In #2 the bits are often for free as a means to have you buy the #1 stuff. In #3 our Attention is key! It…

Aspects of Attention in the context of the Attention Economy To deliver in the Attention Economy is to deliver Attention efficiency. If managing Tivo consumes the same amount of Attention energy as the eliminated commercials then Tivo has done nothing to deliver Attention efficiency. If Attention is a measure of value, then we need to…

Balanced Dancer   Does the dancer turn clockwise or counter-clockwise? If clockwise you are in the right hemisphere. If counterclockwise you are in the left hemisphere. Shift the focus of your attention from the one you’re in to the other hemisphere. Wait and see the dancer shift after you have shifted. read more …