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The Deep Work Divide: Restoring the balance bet...

The Deep Work Divide: Restoring the balance between collaboration and deep work

Deep Work™ is real. It's effective. It's immensely valuable for knowledge work. And yet, it's rare.

Organizations write software in two modes, the focussed mode centered around individual technical skill, and the collaboration mode centered around the communication within the team.

By nature, these two styles are at odds with each other and preferring one means downplaying the other. We know that stellar quality work can come out of an intensely focused mode of working. But we also know that equally stellar quality of work comes from highly aligned teams that work together like a well-oiled engine.

How then should we find a balance between the two? What can leaders and managers do to encourage both? How do we keep the changes small but fundamental?

Modern work cultures and environments are tailored for collaborative work and do not give enough thought to deep work. We will look at how making small changes to the work-day schedule, and the work environment can bridge the gap and support knowledge workers to do the best work of their life.

Swanand Pagnis

March 19, 2019
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  1. Collaboration is about: • An open exchange of ideas •

    Decision making • Responding to stimuli
  2. Deep work is about: • Immersive thinking • Long threads

    of thoughts • Shutting down external stimuli
  3. – Cal Newport, in Deep Work Professional activities performed in

    a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit.
  4. – Cal Newport, in Deep Work. Emphasis mine. Professional activities

    performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit.
  5. – Cal Newport, in Deep Work These efforts create new

    value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.
  6. – Cal Newport, in Deep Work. Emphasis mine. These efforts

    create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.
  7. 1. To quickly master hard things. 2. To produce at

    an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.
  8. 1. To quickly master hard things. 2. To produce at

    an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.
  9. Do not walk up to people and break their flow.

    Even for things like ☕ break.
  10. Hypothesis • It (the jumping around) trains your mind to

    be distracted, and prevents long hours of focus, eventually reducing your ability to focus.
  11. H

  12. If you want to work on something 'side', take a

    few days off and make it the main thing for those days.
  13. Losing the big picture Losing out on collaborative aspects of

    work Trying out too much deep work Missing out on leadership
  14. To quickly master hard things To produce at an elite

    level, in terms of both quality and speed