While procrastination is often seen as a negative act it does have a positive side. Of course if the procastination we enjoy turns out to be positive and leads to a result – is this really procrastination at all? Hmm an academic Zen koan… but I digress and possibly procrastinate.
Since returning to Göteborg from my Open Access project in Lund there has appeared a small window of opportunity to begin doing something more substantial and long term. So based upon this premise I happily ignore a bunch of more pressing, but smaller, tasks in order to create a meaningful long term project.
Thus far I have located and area, a vague plan of action, a whole bunch of related work and now I am formulating a thesis to be presented, argued and defended. So with the risk of jinxing the project by talking about it at this early stage my idea is to write a book (not very original since I am an academic) on the connection between copyright, culture and innovation.
There! It’s out now. So all I need to do now is to fine tune the thesis and begin purposely bashing the keyboard. Who said that procrastination is all bad?

Yah, yah. We all start life by procrastinating for some nine months, right?
Good point, and some of us are not too eager to come out
…my idea is to write a book (not very original for a procrastinator)…
after making the parentheseed realization there’s always the choice to continue writing post epiphany. Epiphany?
So maybe this is silly question, but how that going. I started writing about how manger can use positive procrastination techniques to direct creative professionals. I understand this 6month after your post, but is it not a fair question.
Well Brent I think one of main challenges for managers is to give creative professionals a fair bit of freedom to explore positive procrastination. This is a difficult task for managers since they need to manage (per definition). Maybe the way to approach this would be to re-appraise the concepts of time, success, failure and productivity while sharing the responsibility with the employees…
You have chosen an interesting topic to write about so please share your thoughts on the topic!