Attention must be managed at individual, managerial, and organizational levels to achieve goals

Evidence

The authors suggest that individuals need to manage attention effectively in their personal lives to balance the competing demands of work and family responsibilities. Managers need to manage the attention of bosses, peers, subordinates, and outsiders. Organizations need to capture, manage, and hold the attention of consumers, stockholders, and current, as well as potential, employees. The bottom line is: without being able to manage attention, individuals and companies will lose their ability to be successful in meeting predetermined goals. — Thomas Davenport & John Beck, The Attention Economy, 15

Categorization

• XREF: This three-level attention management framing connects to the early management framing of attention as a scarce resource that the reader is studying for the ‘attention economy’ research purpose. — connects to: Scaled-down abstract plans structure managerial attention from above — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 313; Attention management predates modernity and originates in classical rhetoric. — Michael H. Goldhaber, The Attention Economy and the Net, 5; Leaders’ attention signals where subordinates should direct theirs. — Thomas Davenport & John Beck, The Attention Economy: Understanding…, 20 (+3 more)
• DEFINE: Defines the core management concept of attention as something requiring active management at multiple organizational scales.

Related

• Leaders’ attention signals where subordinates should direct theirs. (similarity 0.88)
• Poor attention management causes managers to miss key competitive and environmental changes (similarity 0.87)
• Scaled-down abstract plans structure managerial attention from above (similarity 0.83)
• Paying attention differs from spending time or being aware. (similarity 0.81)
• Managerial definitions reduce attention to a tool for action (similarity 0.81)
• Attention is socially and materially mediated, not just a scarce mental resource (similarity 0.81)
• Thomas Davenport & John Beck — The Attention Economy Understanding the New Currency of Business (similarity 0.80)
• Attention is a scarce resource drained by information overload (similarity 0.80)
• Attention-economy analysis must be reframed within a broader attention ecosophy (similarity 0.79)
• Attention management predates modernity and originates in classical rhetoric. (similarity 0.79)
• Attention is fundamentally a collecting and filtering act for survival. (similarity 0.79)
• Attention is a superimposition of entangled mechanisms rather than a single faculty (similarity 0.79)
• Attention also varies in quality and mode, not just quantity (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Poor attention management causes managers to miss key competitive and environmental changes #exemplifies (0.85) — Thomas Davenport & John Beck, The Attention Economy, 16
• Leaders’ attention signals where subordinates should direct theirs. #expands (0.82) — Thomas Davenport & John Beck, The Attention Economy, 20
• Attentional scaffolds controllable by individuals constitute techniques of attention. #responds-to (0.75) — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 45