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Monotasking

The New Management Strategy

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Language :  English
Multitasking is a myth, and a very costly one in terms of productivity and quality of output. Monotasking allows you to accomplish more, with less stress, less effort, and in less time.
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Managers who brag about their multitasking skills are less productive than those who don't multitask. It is a scientific fact that our brains do not multitask. Like computers, they process information sequentially by switching quickly back and forth between tasks. Attempting to do more than one task at a time increases the cognitive load in your brain, depleting its available power. To cope effectively with today's workload, distractions, and information explosion, you must practice a strategy foreign to most modern managers - monotasking. This book tells you how.

About the Author

Harold Taylor, currently owner of TaylorInTime, has been speaking, writing, and conducting training programs on the topic of effective time management for over 40 years. He has written over 20 books, including a Canadian bestseller, Making Time Work for You, originally published in 1981.

  • About the author
  1. Multitasking is inefficient, unhealthy - and impossible!
    1. Mission impossible
    2. An alternative to multitasking
  2. A closer look at “multitasking”
    1. All “multitasking” is not the same
    2. When multitasking (task switching) seems to work
    3. Multitasking has outlived its time
  3. Demonstrations indicating task switching wastes time
    1. Illustrating multitasking to groups
    2. Illustrating multitasking to individuals
    3. Multitasking with the brain’s involvement
    4. Do not confuse multitasking with speed
    5. The power of monotasking
    6. Why do people still multitask?
    7. The easy way to develop or break a habit
  4. Getting the right things done
    1. Prioritize for focus
    2. Importance and urgency vary with the situation
    3. Work on the most important, most difficult tasks first
  5. Scheduling appointments with yourself
    1. The 90-minute rule of scheduling
    2. Work with your biological clock
    3. Work with your energy cycles
    4. How to set boundaries
    5. Know how to say no
  6. It’s time to start monotasking
    1. Avoid most interruptions
    2. The heart of monotasking
    3. Monotasking has been proven to work
    4. Monotasking – both an art and a science
    5. Monotasking is rarely practised
    6. How to get started
  • Books referenced in monotasking
About the Author
Harold

Harold Taylor