Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”

Breakthrough

How do you tame the multitasking beast? You may be convinced of everything we’ve previously written, and you may have even tried to limit multitasking, but without much success. So the question is, “Why is it so hard to stop multitasking?” Simply put, almost all our technology today encourages multitasking. It is hard to even recognize how prevalent it is and even harder to stop it. There’s also the misperception that multitasking is a more efficient way to work. And one other thing, there’s a latent fear that you might “miss something.” Ask yourself, is it really that important that you find out right now that your best friend is going to take his girlfriend to see the new movie tonight? To ask the question is to answer it—you ...