“Attention multitaskers: You’re not fooling anyone. Although you look busy and involved in your work, a new study out of Stanford shows you aren’t really paying attention to any of your tasks. The Stanford researchers took 100 students through a series of tests. Half of the group claimed to be masters of the multitask. The … Continue reading “Multitaskers Aren’t Fooling Anyone: Stanford”
nydailynews: Stop the multitasking madness! Attempting to do it all can cause neurological damage: studies
“[Professor Russell Poldrack] found that the information the distracted participants studied actually traveled to a different part of the brain than the information the other volunteers studied. Ideally, new information ought to go to the hippocampus, which has the capacity to store and recall information. In distracted volunteers, however, the hippocampus was not fully activated.” … Continue reading “nydailynews: Stop the multitasking madness! Attempting to do it all can cause neurological damage: studies”
Slate:Seeking
“Actually all our electronic communication devices—e-mail, Facebook feeds, texts, Twitter—are feeding the same drive as our searches. Since we’re restless, easily bored creatures, our gadgets give us in abundance qualities the seeking/wanting system finds particularly exciting.” http://www.slate.com/id/2224932/pagenum/all/#p2
SurePayroll Main Street Insights: Is Multi-Tasking Hurting Small Business?
“A recent survey by SurePayroll found that 88 percent of small business owners think multi-tasking is now a key component in running a successful business that business owners should embrace. Also, 56 percent of Small business respondents indicated that they often handle three or more tasks simultaneously.” http://www.surepayroll.com/spsite/press/releases/2009/release071609.asp
Forget the 4-Hour Workweek! What About the 40-Hour Workweek?
I was speaking with an executive coaching client fairly recently and he asked me about what I thought about the 4 hour workweek, and I am going to give you my candid response to that. What I told him that I think there are some great, great principles in the 4 hour workweek. I think … Continue reading “Forget the 4-Hour Workweek! What About the 40-Hour Workweek?”
