Results tagged “multitasking” from Knowledge Jolt with Jack
In meetings at work today, the term "context" has come up a number of times. As I dove into my interest in knowledge management, context was clearly one of the most critical elements of enabling knowledge transfer.
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Jens Poder has a great piece on productivity / multi tasking, "Stop doing half-actions."
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Chris Spagnuolo has an interesting article on multitasking, "The Myth of Managed Multi-tasking," with a great quote from Picasso. I see an interesting link to Theory of Constraints.
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Craig Roth has an interesting article today about "Email Interruptions as Avoidance Mechanism for Cognitive Dissonance."
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Rise, the Educated Being tells us that Learning and multitasking are not good friends.
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Some discussion of articles and a podcast recently that address the issues of productivity and multitasking. The short version: don't multitask.
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Back in May, Stephen Seay had a bunch of reasons for Why Is My Project Late? at his Project Steps blog. The list included the usual suspects, but what about the management sources?
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Kevin Rutherford has an interesting find, which suggests that lowering the water level is an excellent way to surface the real constraints in a system (you can see the rocks when they aren't covered with water).
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Anne Zelenka at Web Worker Daily had some interesting thoughts about a different mode of productivity that isn't harmed by multi-tasking. "Connected Mode: Multitasking for Productivity."
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Is multitasking a good idea or not? Let's define it and clarify what it is that bothers me about working on multiple tasks at once.
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David Laffineuse provides a great quote on the mindset of resource managers in multi-project environments.
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Computerworld interviews the authors of some new research on IT and productivity. Looks like some interesting though easily misinterpreted results.
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Lisa Haneberg tells us that we are all hassle-making machines. And that we should stop. And she does it with humor.
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Josh Nankivel has started blogging and picked up on the perennially-favorite topic of multi-tasking. He talks about the theory of constraints connection, and he also makes connection to Covey's 4 quadrants.
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Johanna Rothman is looking at the Costs of Multitasking and asks for suggestions both on other aspects of multitasking and on how to evaluate their impact (cost).
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The Buzzword Dictionary is a humorous look at our use of language. The Chicago Tribune had a piece about the book which included the sample definitions below.
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The August 2006 TOC Update from Goldratt Marketing Group includes an item on The Impact of Multitasking by Mike Mannion and Sven Ehrke.
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Dave Munger of Cognitive Daily writes High IQ: Not as good for you as you thought, in which he discusses research that looked at IQ and "self discipline" as predictors for academic performance. The surprise? Self-discipline was more highly correlated than was IQ.
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George Siemens points to an article on Task-Switching, Emotional Motivation, and Reward from Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide. They in turn are writing about a paper on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that studied people who are asked to switch tasks. There might be a connection to multi-tasking.
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Dale Emery does a nice job of highlighting the assumptions around why we multi-task. And then he shows that those assumptions are misguided.
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Multi-tasking links from Frank Patrick and Jeff Davidson
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