Let Me Think About It
Cell phones, 24/7 e-mail-now it takes a special day just to think for a second.
How would you like it if your employees started hanging "DoNot Disturb" signs outside their cubes? Many entrepreneurswould be all for it. In fact, some cutting-edge business ownershave begun enforcing rules that provide days of peace and quiet fortheir employees.
Such days come with all kinds of names-alone days, free days,focus days, buffer days, thinking days-but whatever the moniker,they each seem to have the same effect. "The benefits arehuge," says Richard Rhodes, 40, CEO of Rhodes, Ragen &Smith, a Seattle-based supplier of building products. "We havespecific days when you put the sign up on your door, shut off yourphone and really wrap your head around a problem. The goal is totake time to work on the business instead of in it. Some peoplecall it 'taking time to sharpen the ax.'"
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