Build the cubicles higher: colleagues slow you down

New brain research suggests having people around us at work makes us less productive.  Apparently, some of our more emotionally intelligent neurons are distracted because they empathize with what others are...

Trapped in cubicles

"Robert Oppenheimer agonized over building the A-bomb. Alfred Nobel got queasy about creating dynamite. Robert Propst invented nothing so destructive. Yet before he died in 2000, he lamented his unwitting...