Hmm, what you choose to do the first hour of work can often inform your inner nature. Dave Hitz, one of the founders of NetApp, had put it into three groups:

1) If you look at the output of the build you're focused inward on what you are doing.

2) If you look at your email in general you're focussed on what the company is doing around you.

3) If you look at the web/blogs you are focused on what the world is doing around you.

Always thought that was pretty neat.