http://www.fastcompany.com/tag/multitasking The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. xx http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2008/07/interview-gloria-mark.html <!--paging_filter--><p><strong>Why study interruption?</strong></p> <p>I became interested in it from my own personal experience. I moved here from Europe back in 2000. I was stunned by the amount of multitasking that I was doing here in the U.S. and I was wondering if other people were experiencing it as well. Anecdotally, people were reporting they were crushed by all of these different projects. People's lives as information workers involve different kinds of technologies, and they create even more of a force for interruption and different places where we can focus our attention.</p><p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2008/07/interview-gloria-mark.html">read more</a></p> Gloria Mark information interruption knowledge worker multitasking personal growth problem solving productivity project task Careers 944128 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:30:07 -0400 Kermit Pattison 944128 at http://www.fastcompany.com http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/james-mcintosh/nonsense-work/nonsense-work-28 <strong>Single-minded multi-tasking:</strong><br /> <br /> Have you heard the one about the Jack of all trades who became the master of none?  You have?  Then why are you still so keen on multi-tasking?<br /> <br /> Multi-tasking does not work.  Mmmaybe it does. What I mean is that multi-tasking does not work very well.<br /><p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/james-mcintosh/nonsense-work/nonsense-work-28">read more</a></p> focus multitasking task tasks Leadership Management 939134 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:06:53 -0400 James McIntosh 939134 at http://www.fastcompany.com