Kathie Lingle's Work-Life Blog

Distracted? Then Don’t Miss Maggie Jackson’s Webinar!

June 10, 2008 — For all of you who are fans of Maggie Jackson’s Balancing Acts column in the Sunday Boston Globe, or read her first book, or heard her speech that so eloquently closed the Conference Board/Families and Work Institute Work-Life conference in Atlanta a few months ago, her new book, Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, is released this week. You simply can’t miss joining her on June 19 for a WorldatWork-hosted Webinar, during which I will have the pleasure of interviewing her about why she wrote this book, what she has to tell us about the toll on distraction of people, organizations and society, and how discoveries about the nature of attention can come to our aid.  Maggie has interviewed the top brain researchers in the world and has a lot to share about how to recover our power of focus in the midst of an intensifying environment of distraction.  I am fortunate to have procured an advance copy of the book, which I’ve been reading as I’ve been traveling this past weekend.  Maggie manages to take a serious, scientific topic and write it like a novel that is hard to put down.  You can learn more about her work at www.Maggie-jackson.com. Visit our Web site to register for the Webinar, which is free to WorldatWork members.  You don’t belong?  Well, this is an excellent and cost-effective opportunity to join! 

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