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In the Ignite session "Workplace Analytics and MyAnalytics: Transform productivity with collaboration insights from Office 365," Microsoft product manager Kamal Janardhan walked attendees through the Microsoft approach to cultural change. By quantifying the time spent on different aspects of white-collar work -- holding meetings, answering email, establishing or extending internal and external networks, working after-hours -- people can identify areas where the organizational culture may be impeding productivity, performance or morale. [...]companies and the people in them should be aiming to help everyone fight the good fight against distraction. [...]if Microsoft successfully executes on its vision of analytics as a driver of mindful habit change and improvement, it will have inoculated customers worldwide with Nadella's vision: a mindful approach to work, one that is subject to the expectation of continuous and endless growth -- both for the individual and the company's bottom line.