Being Messy is Good?
Clarity Jane is all about helping you get and stay organized and neat. However, according to the book “A Perfect Mess” (By Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman) your messy work-desk could actually mean you have a higher education and salary potential!
This book presents 5 habits of messy people:
1. Realize the costs of being neat. The authors present a study revealing that people with a “very neat” desk spent 36% more time searching for things than people with “fairly messy” desks, partly because people spend more time organizing or tidying up when “randomness” happens.
2. Realize the benefits of a mess: Benefits include more flexibility, and less time spent “organizing”
3. Re-think strategic planning: Studies show that companies who rely on informal, shorter-term planning can better react to curveballs.
4. Pick your mess strategy: The authors suggest three ways people are messy and encourage you to identify yours and be proud of it.
5. Think mess, think innovation. Know who is responsible for organization or innovation in your company.
TYPES OF MESSY PEOPLE
The authors suggest three ways you could be messy:
1. Proactively messy: You are messy out of curiosity, playfulness, or experimentation.
2. Full-moon messy: You let mess build up and deal with it all at once at a later date.
3. Tower of power mess: “…gravity can be an amazingly effective glue” for stuff in a pile
Perhaps your messy desk is really just an organized mess?
