As befits someone whose first decade of professional output inspired a book called "Habits, Patterns, Algorithms" (ORO Editions, 2008), he's the quintessential polymath: one part nerdy, several parts worldly and equally interested in bees and Brigitte Bardot.

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The surprise boost to output was helped by the production sector, including manufacturing, which rose by more than 1%, and by professional services increasing output by 3%.

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As output is hard to measure in most professional jobs, managers will fall back on the oldest gauge of performance: favouring those employees who get in early and leave late.

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It can feel like a professional risk for managers to support employees who are experimentalists and therefore take longer to develop their creative output.

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