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Another member of the Corvid family, the jackdaw is similar to the magpie in the sense that it has acquired a reputation for pinching shiny objects when it gets the opportunity to do so. In fact, its name may have been inspired by its penchant for thievery, since the word jack traditionally describes a thief. A small bird by the standards of the rest of its family, the jackdaw often nests in urban areas, and is drawn to constructing nests in houses with open fires. Simon Fuller has been a freelance writer since Characteristics of a Peacock Bird. Animals That Are Independent.
Mynah Bird Nature Grid: The Crow Family Corvidae B. Improve your signal-to-noise ratio.
Bob: The language I know is not popular anymore. It's not "the shiny thing" that idiot managers are flocking to. Lilly: Yeah. It's all about the shiny things for them. 1. A thing that is bright, and shiny. 2. A great forum in the cruel world we call internet; glowworm depository; dolfie haven.
The best way to manage distraction is not through discipline, but by managing the sources of distraction. When you are part of groups and newsletters that keep recommending new products, new offerings, it disrupts your focus and train of thought.
This is known as cognitive load, something that I mentioned in my How to Say No podcast. Instead of sieving out noise which takes up precious mental energy, remove low-quality information sources. Evaluate your social media news feeds, Facebook group memberships, email subscriptions, and RSS feed subscriptions. What is your noise-to-signal ratio for each channel? A high noise-to-signal ratio means the channel has a high proportion of unhelpful, irrelevant suggestions noise vs.
Unsubscribe from groups and newsletters with a high noise-to-signal ratio. Get your information from sources with a high signal-to-noise ratio instead. Understand the concept of switching costs. The second reason is switching costs , which are invisible costs incurred as a result of switching to something new.
Switching costs can be monetary. They can be the time taken to learn a brand new system. They can also be the mental cost of changing your focus. So what did this mean? For starters, a new set of questions Treasury could choose to explore, like why they had a payment plan.
Was it important to residents? That started all kinds of changes.
For example, if a department is claiming predictive intelligence is a must have, make them demonstrate the need, and not only the need, but the ownership as well. Hundreds of residents cleared up their debt. Yep, obviously part of an ongoing conspiracy to cover up the lost civilization on Mars. Battling a devastating recession and corporate greed, Karen risks her career to save the only family she has left. Her first impulse is to rush back to California and find another, but year-old Frieda Richter has been lobbying hard for one last road trip in the old but pristine Roadtrek
They put all their urgent notice letters on pink paper. They took up the challenge issued by the flurry of returned letters from unknown or wrong addresses. Treasury had access to a database that residents kept up-to-date because government used it to mail checks.
Treasury began checking more addresses through that database. They used the insights from the workshop to test ideas with other people. As small changes rolled out, bigger benefits started to roll in. Equally compelling, the staff was energized. They continue to try and test new changes. Hundreds of residents cleared up their debt. For government workers, making small, unshiny changes can be even harder than making big, bold ones.
Leadership loves big changes. It can be easier to find money from taxpayers or from outside partnerships. Any change at all often counters what civil servants have been taught for decades: It took a number of seemingly small steps that were, in fact, large steps for government.
First, it created space for civil servants to ask questions and to brainstorm across departments. It is also one of its greatest challenges.
Second, it offered a specific approach—behavioral science—for considering a problem in a new way. Behavioral science and testing of small changes to improve services is something we can use across problems, agencies, and governments. To do that, they have to interact with citizens or send letters out. That gap is measurable.
Cities are already keeping tabs on who owes what. This means we have all the numbers to see if we can increase compliance by even just a couple of percentage points. Fourth, it empowered local civil servants, the people who knew most about the process, and the community. After the results from the initial test, Treasury could have done another test with a control group and a small process change.