Cambridge 14 | Test 2 | Passage 3

Why companies should welcome disorder

New research suggests that our obsession with efficiency is misguided. The problem is not necessarily the management theories or strategies we use to organize our work; it’s the basic assumption we hold in approaching how we work. Here it’s the assumption that order is a necessary condition for productivity. This assumption has also fostered the idea that disorder must be detrimental to organizational productivity. The result is that businesses and people spend time and money organizing themselves for the sake of organizing, rather than actually looking at the end goal and usefulness of such an effort.

obsession (noun) [C or U]

something or someone that you think about all the time   

misguided (adjective)

/ˌmɪsˈɡaɪ.dɪd/

wrong because you have understood or judged a situation badly

for the sake of

because of, or for the purpose of something