On September 11, 2009
How to Multitask Better
A couple of week’s ago we posted on a study out of Stanford that found multitasking basically makes you bad at everything. But with teams leaner than ever and the pace of communication and business increasing steadily, plodding along doing just one thing at a time doesn’t really seem like an option. In the modern office, anyone handling only one form of technology at a time practically comes off as a slacker. So how can we keep up the pace and productivity we associate with multitasking without sacrificing the quality of our work? The HBR Conversation Starter’s Ron Ashkenas has an idea — focus on value rather than volume: The answer is to shift our mindsets from a focus on…
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