【正文】 advice is offered by Douglas Merrill, former CEO at Google. By way of example, he suggests bining reading financial statements for a period of time, and following that with backtoback meetings on related financial matters. The aim is to avoid having to download all the details about a specific problem from your mind and reload a different set of data. Also, try to clear your mind between tasks – go for a walk, practice yoga and so on.As regards last year’s financial crisis, why did so many leaders, intelligent people, make so many decisions which later were seen to be so obviously wrong? In the case of the bankers, many would answer that the reason was greed. Was it really so simple? Was a more important failure, cognitive? There is an evergrowing understanding of how our brain works.One view is that to make good decisions you must think twice. This, however, is somethingour minds would rather not do.Nor are our brains good at making decisions. Too often we make choices based on fear of losing, rather than hope of gaining something. In a recent study of 1,000 executives, half said that they relied on intuition to make decisions. Fine, but intuition only works well in ‘‘stable’’ environments where conditions remain largely unchanged, where feedback is clear and where causeandeffect relationships are linear. Hence, according to cutting edge psychologists such as Nobel prizewinner, Daniel Kahneman, there are two systems of decision making. The first is experiential which is fast and automatic. This would be seen as mendable to many experts on time management. There is, however, a downside, namely that it is difficult to control. The second is analytical, which is slow, serial and takes effort. So we should recognise the limits of intention and seek to train our gut to produce more reliable responses. Having been alerted to the possible need to think twice, the decision as to what to do is yours. But, do not procrastinate. In this world you can only cross a wide river in one leap。發(fā)現(xiàn) 文章發(fā)現(xiàn)信息的性質(zhì)已經(jīng)從面對(duì)面改為盯著電腦屏幕。時(shí)間和空間的概念有顯著的不同。■相對(duì)重要的是與社會(huì)的關(guān)系保持時(shí)間表的地方。一些人電子郵件，短信和會(huì)說(shuō)話的同時(shí)，不斷局部的關(guān)注已經(jīng)成為司空見(jiàn)慣。一個(gè)無(wú)處不在的信息的結(jié)果是，我們不太可能去追求，然后轉(zhuǎn)向互聯(lián)網(wǎng)新的思想路線。這可以通過(guò)各種各樣的方式，其中許多是非常簡(jiǎn)單和非常有效的.例如，可以攜帶自己的左側(cè)上衣口袋里的小卡片。此外，嘗試清除任務(wù)之間你的頭腦——去散步，練習(xí)瑜伽等。很好，但也只能直覺(jué)在穩(wěn)定的環(huán)境中，條件大致維持不變，其中反饋意見(jiàn)是明確的，其中的原因和結(jié)果的關(guān)系是線性的。但是，不要拖延。一種方法來(lái)處理這??是當(dāng)你打開(kāi)你的電子郵件，不要站在它