FROM MLPF

http://jayderagon.com/blog/?p=94

The Attention Factor
Author: Jay Deragon
07 28th, 2007

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My response…”Without your commitment to spend the time planning and thinking about hundreds of related issues and interactions what your asking for it is impossible. His response was I can give you no more than an hour a day and he said the other executive on the phone could also give about an hour a day. They simply don’t get it! They suffer from The Attention Factor and what I will label as “Continuous Partial Attention” or CPA.

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I see a ton of this these days. Recently I gave a presentation where of the 18 people “listening”, only 3 were paying attention. Some didn’t even pretend to be attentive. I’m used to dealing with people who are day dreaming when I talk to them. Guess I’m boring them. So when I see the eyes glaze over, I stop. What does one do with today’s executives? Nothing imho. Don’t waste your time. I guess that’s why at work, people seem to want my opinion. When someone comes and says gave I talk to you, I say “sure, one sec”, and I close the laptop and give them my undivided attention. It’s a matter of respect. Sigh, so I didn’t get it in my recent presentation, but that’s OK, they are “senior leadership”. What were they leading, surely not me.

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