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The Dangers of Multitasking

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Finally. Proof that obsessive multitasking is dangerous (to your career and your sanity) can be found in a recent Wall Street Journal Online article by Jared Sandberg. In today’s corporate world, it’s a point of pride to be able to take a meeting while simultaneously checking emails, writing memos, and doing office yoga. The problem is that inept multitasking can lead to hilarious and/or humiliating mistakes.

 

According to the NASA guy quoted in the WSJ article, multitasking means that "it’s almost inevitable that each individual task will be slower and of lower quality."  It shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out (sorry, couldn’t resist).

 

But in today’s workplace, everybody’s under pressure to do more, more, faster, faster. In the corporate world, being a good multitasker is almost as crucial to success as effective butt-kissing (I said almost). It’s impossible to escape. But there is something to be said for focus. When the task at hand is an important one, doesn’t it deserve your full attention? Wouldn’t this blog have been much more insightful if I wasn’t also checking email and downloading from iTunes?

 

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