Found this gem on Jim Grisanzio’s weblog…
_I hate multitasking. Absolutely despise it. Always have. I’ve poked fun at this idiotic notion of multitasking here, here, and here, too. And I try to ignore — or at least placate — people who tell me I should multitask more (as if I’m not forced to multitask enough already). Instead, I’m making a major effort to narrow my activities and focus focus focus. The more I do this the more relaxed I become and the more successful I feel.
So it was nice to read this article in Fortune today by Anne Fisher, who interviewed Stephanie Winston about her new book — Organized for Success: Top Executives and CEOs Reveal the Organizing Principles That Helped Them Reach the Top. It seems multitasking is not held in high esteem among successful senior execs:
The biggest mistake most people make, according to Winston, is multitasking. “Successful CEOs do not multitask,” she told me. “They concentrate intensely on one thing at a time.”
I need to add
Organized for Success : Top Executives and CEOs Reveal the Organizing Principles That Helped Them Reach the Top to my reading list.
Doing things one at a time and focussing on them is how I operate and the Getting Things Done Methodology has enabled me to focus.
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