{"id":2512,"date":"2012-06-28T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2013-06-27T09:10:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T14:10:38","slug":"bad-habits-are-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2012\/06\/bad-habits-are-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Habits Are Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am struggling with this Salary.com article &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salary.com\/12-bad-habits-that-can-actually-help-your-career\/slide\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\">12 Bad Habits That Can Actually Help Your Career<\/a>.\u00a0 Here is one example:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>Procrastinating<\/h4>\n<p>Today&#8217;s work culture expects us to multitask, run from one project to the next, and constantly be on the go. The urge to procrastinate indicates your brain is overtired, overstressed, and needs to slow down. Indulge and take a time out. You&#8217;ll come back refreshed, and better able to focus on the tasks at hand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What?\u00a0 Indulge and take a time out?\u00a0 As a manager, procrastination from my direct reports was\u2026discouraged.\u00a0 I never recall telling them to indulge and take a time out.\u00a0 To me it seems like a bridge too far in this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am struggling with this Salary.com article &#8211; 12 Bad Habits That Can Actually Help Your Career.\u00a0 Here is one example: Procrastinating Today&#8217;s work culture expects us to multitask, run from one project to the next, and constantly be on the go. The urge to procrastinate indicates your brain is overtired, overstressed, and needs to slow down. Indulge and take a time out. You&#8217;ll come back refreshed, and better able to focus on the tasks at hand. What?\u00a0 Indulge and take a time out?\u00a0 As a manager, procrastination from my direct reports was\u2026discouraged.\u00a0 I never recall telling them to indulge and take a time out.\u00a0 To me it seems like&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2012\/06\/bad-habits-are-good\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,4,11],"tags":[31,1670,1395,1704,1750],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","category-sales-management","category-team-management","tag-leadership","tag-leadership-style","tag-leading","tag-procrastinating","tag-sales-management"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-Ew","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":220,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/reviews-and-development-plans\/","url_meta":{"origin":2512,"position":0},"title":"Reviews and Development Plans","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"August 8, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"CareerBuilder.com approaches an important topic that is often placed on the back burner - Why Do Quarterly Employee Reviews? I suspect most companies perform an annual employee review that is primarily tied to a salary review. Many companies may not even do that much. A scheduled, quarterly review is insulation\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sales Management&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sales Management","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/sales-management\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":250,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/how-to-achieve-success\/","url_meta":{"origin":2512,"position":1},"title":"How to achieve success","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"August 24, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I came across this article that is almost a year old on EyesOnsSales website this morning. It is titled Why Success is a Science (membership required). It is a short read but the author makes some great points. 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