worksmartplayhard

Multitasking (2): Eradicating the blight

The sign of the times?
...Banks collapsing?

Or how about a bunch of tourists, oblivious to the fragrant beauty of Granada’s Generalife gardens, absorbed in texting?

That’s where we were last newsletter. Everywhere technologies crowding in and human wit crowded out. Social interaction wrecked as geeks 
(yes that’s us now) fidget with techno-toys.

I even hear of business meetings turned into BlackBerry users’ conventions. This is rude and unintelligent and I suggest declaring meetings mobile-free zones: people throwing tantrums get fined

Click here to read the full newsletter

Multitasking (1): Modern Workplace Blight

Those Ancient Greek giants with fifty heads and a hundred hands apiece must have been whizzo multitaskers. Computers are. You, if human, aren't.

Almost certainly, however, you are expected to be, have claimed to be, or aspire to be, an ace multitasker. You may even believe, mistakenly, that you are one.

What? I hear you protest. I can simultaneously catch up on my podcasts, review reports, field phone calls, burn CDs illegally, watch Dave, send and read text, juggle jelly, feed the tapir and learn my children’s names!

Click here to read the full newsletter

'No'! Say it. Mean it. Love it.

A long day gets longer. Interruptions. Phone calls. Endlessemails! Your 9 pm dinner date is looking as remote and as jolly as Scott’s Last Camp - and suddenly there’s yet another 11th hour crisis, and once again it’s drop what you’re doing and all hands on deck!

Wow! You’re so popular! But love it or hate it, you’re merely human and there’s only so many hours.

So, what could help on such a day

Click here to read the full newsletter

Busy being Busy?

 

We’re busy being busy
Working the whole day through,
Effective or Efficient,
Which one are you?

You think that last line’s not a showstopper? Oh, yes it is - because strenuous, misdirected effort will eventually stop your show.

Click here to read the full newsletter