Time Management - Marc Mancini
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<strong>Time</strong> <strong>Management</strong><br />
Dangers of Multitasking<br />
Four warnings about multitasking:<br />
1. Never allow multitasking to distract you. Sure, it<br />
might seem like a good idea to go through your mail while talking<br />
on the phone. Almost surely, though, you’ll miss something—<br />
maybe important points the caller is making.<br />
2. Never allow multitasking to become dangerous. Having rolls and<br />
coffee as you drive in traffic while talking on the cell phone is<br />
potentially disastrous.<br />
3. Never allow multitasking to become obsessive. The feeling that you<br />
must always overlap several tasks simply fuels your compulsions.<br />
And many tasks will suffer without your full concentration.<br />
4. Never allow multitasking to intrude on others. Be considerate when<br />
using those phones on aircraft seat backs or your cell phone in<br />
public places.They’re a wonderful convenience, but the person sitting<br />
next to you probably doesn’t want to hear your conversation.<br />
until some other technology does it better, print media disseminate<br />
information like no other media.<br />
Those polled in the study must at least, in part, have been<br />
grumbling about information overload, not the act of reading<br />
itself. Review the strategies given in Chapter 7, in the sidebars<br />
on pages 82 and 84. They’ll remind you how skimming, highlighting,<br />
underlining, and the rip-and-read tactic can help you<br />
better manage your many reports, letters, articles, tasks, and<br />
other written materials.<br />
<strong>Time</strong> Leak #6: Long-Winded People<br />
This should possibly have been placed higher in our survey.<br />
(The number-one time waster—socializing— probably siphoned<br />
off some votes.) There are several procedures to use with “talkers”<br />
(a few of which we’ve already examined) that are both<br />
diplomatic and artful.<br />
On the Phone<br />
• Call long-winded people when you know they’ll be in a<br />
hurry (e.g., before lunch).