Comments on: Be Your Own Boss. Work Harder. Lose Sleep.

By: jimsotonna

jimsotonna — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:01:08 +0000

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By: Workaholism invades sleep, with Lionel Richie «

Workaholism invades sleep, with Lionel Richie « — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:29:29 +0000

[...] for making it news. This “study” appeared in niche-market publications (like Inc., Entrepreneur and even American Drycleaner), as well as dailies across the [...]

By: Tim Berry

Tim Berry — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:07:53 +0000

Dreamweaver: thanks for the comments.

Regarding me being “upset,” I suspect from your comment that in fact we agree. I, too, think dreams are good. I believe in the power of dreams, and in their relationship to creativity and life itself. What took me back a bit was the presentation of dreaming about work as if that were just more work. In context, it seemed the researchers were just adding dream time to work time. Please go look at the source reference, the original post I link to, to see that spelled out.

Re the survey, thanks for the addition. I read that in the linked documents, too. A methodology paragraph doesn’t resolve my cynicism about the difference between what people really think and who they really are, and what they say they think and who they say they are when pollsters ask them.

Thanks for joining in,
Tim

By: Is Your Small Business Killing You?

Is Your Small Business Killing You? — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:26:04 +0000

[...] that point, "Be Your Own Boss, Work Harder, Lose Sleep" summarizes a recent Staples Business online poll that found all sorts of nasty realities about [...]

By: Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:29:09 +0000

In regards to your opinion of the survey, I pulled this off the official release: “The survey was developed by Staples and conducted by Decision Analyst, Inc. in Arlington, TX. Decision Analyst surveyed by Internet a nationally-representative random sample of 302 owners and executives of American businesses having no more than 20 employees. All respondents were members of American Consumer Opinion® online, Decision Analyst’s proprietary Internet based consumer-opinion panel with over 7,000,000 members globally. Interviews were conducted from December 7 to December 11, 2007. Such a sample has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.0 percent at the 95 percent confidence level. For more information about American Consumer Opinion® online please visit http://www.acop.com.”

As for the track and field question, I looked closer at the survey and found that more than 26 percent responded that their company works like a marathon with “steady speed, detailed plan, controlled, intelligently relaxed and ready to sprint past the pack at just the right time.”

It’s interesting that this subject would upset you. If people are dreaming about work and actually getting good ideas, what’s the problem? Do they really have a choice?