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12 Bad Habits That Can Actually Help Your Career

Being Messy

Obsessively neat people spend time and effort on order that could be better spent on more important tasks.

It probably won't surprise you to learn that moderately messy folks are more creative than their cleaner counterparts, but did you also know they are more efficient?

Of course, complete disarray is never okay. Schedule regular times to tidy up, but let things go in between.

 

  • Dawn Dugan

    Dawn Dugan specializes in writing books, articles, white papers, reports and special communications for the human resources industry. She is the co-author of Effective Executive Compensation, which was published by AMACOM in 2008. Read more...