By Dan Coughlin Two weeks ago I gave a full-day seminar at the Washington University Olin Business School. Thirty-six full-time executives from 24 different organizations made up the class. We were discussing one of my favorite topics, focus and sacrifice, when a woman raised her hand and said, “You’re talking about the fallacy of multitasking.” […]
Uh-oh! It turns out we’ve been pushing a bad productivity tip to half the population! A foolproof way to make more money is to increase productivity, so it’s no wonder that productivity boosting articles are always popular. However, one tip that turns up repeatedly in these articles isn’t such so great. Multitasking: Yea or Nay? […]
I’d be willing to bet that virtually everyone has said, “There just aren’t enough hours in the day!” It’s especially true for the small business owner. Pile family responsibilities on top of work duties and it makes for a seemingly impossible situation. However, if you start hacking away at this problem from two angles, you […]
I must admit I’m a multitasker. I bounce back and forth between projects, emails, social media and phone calls. Plus, I typically have a news program running in the background And I think I get a considerable amount of work done every day. However, researchers have found that media multitaskers like me may be paying […]