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Candidate for High Performance? Beware Multitasking

 Ever seen the multi-tasking professional? Working simultaneously on a dozen projects, attending a meeting and blackberrying at the same time, typing and calling, a dozen of files open on the desktop, etc. Hyper-busy, hyper-multitasking,... but hyper-performing? No. Just the contrary, actually. A recent study, reported in the International Herald Tribune, seems to show that multi-taskers are lousy under-performers. Doing one thing at a time, paying full attention on one single task the one after the other, delivers much better outcomes, the study says.

Antoine Henry de Frahan | 31 August 2009 |