Laura Stack at The Productivity Pro Blog wrote an eye-catching post titled The 12 Dysfunctional Personal Productivity Personalities. I have a tendency to be a #1/Scrapper (thank goodness for the advent of PCs) – – I’ve have been accused of being #9/an over-emailer” – – and I land squarely in #12/Workaholic-land. Read Laura’s entire article for her suggestions on how to deal with colleagues who have these personality profiles.
1) Scrappers. Desk looks like a modern art exhibit, covered in scraps of paper and sticky notes. They write important notes on whatever is close at hand, whether it’s a fast food receipt or the back of an envelope
2) Pilers. Keep everything and file nothing. There will be boxes on the floor and every inch of desk space will be occupied by stacks of paper, generally piled up to the point that an archeologist could use them to figure out what the piler has been working on for the last five years.
3) Multi-taskers. Aways have a thousand things going on at once and generally take pride in it. They flit from task to task, getting many things started but few things completed. And they often appear frazzled, overwhelmed, and scattered.
