Most of us aren't paid to go to meetings, answer emails or check social media. We're paid to do work that requires our focused attention and mental effort -- deep work.
But managers often see mundane tasks or "shallow work" claiming so much of their employees' time and attention -- and their own -- that it pushes deep work to the back of their calendars. Or off them entirely.
Cal Newport, a Georgetown University professor and author of Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (and, full disclosure, the son of Gallup's Editor-in-Chief Frank Newport), says that deep work is what creates value and generates high-quality work quickly.
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