The good news is that while ADD can be debilitating in children and other normal human beings, it is actually an asset in executives. I can’t imagine what corporate life would be like without it–sitting like a slug for hours attending to conversations, bending my nose to the grindstone as I tackle one aggravating duty after another…feh![Instead,] I’m…

* Often blurting out answers before questions are completed. Even when they’re wrong. I know many more wrong answers than right ones, and I like to offer them as often as I possibly can. I hate waiting to reply to people. It means that they’re talking and I’m not.

* Often interrupting or intruding on others. Have you ever known a senior manager who didn’t do this? You’ll be sitting in somebody’s office, having interrupted what they were doing, and another boss just strolls in and interrupts you interrupting the other guy, completely intruding on your intrusion! Man!

– excerpted from Stanley Bing’s Diagnosis: Executive ADD, Fortune Magazine, 31 May 2004.

This Bing guy seems to be onto something. Click link for the full article. You know, just as soon as you’re done interrupting somebody.