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http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/the-art-of-multitasking College Forum to discuss admissions, financial aid, SAT prep, Greek organizations, campus clubs, politics, etc. en-US Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:22:20 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://forum.collegetimes.us/search.php http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/the-art-of-multitasking#post-1725 Mon, 04 Oct 2010 03:31:47 +0000 Anonymous 1725@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>How do you manage to stay sane when you're insanely busy? You become very good at multitasking. Stephen Carter, CEO of Cingular Wireless, spends half of his time on the road and handles 200 emails a day. Yet he exudes a sense of calm and control, mainly because he has strict rules for how he operates. Anne Altman, a managing director at IBM, is responsible for the company's sales to its biggest customer: the U.S. government. Her secret weapon for multitasking? Instant messaging, which she believes is the next great workplace productivity tool. </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/the-art-of-multitasking#post-1145 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:10:32 +0000 Anonymous 1145@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>NYer's Nick Paumgarten [url=http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2009/11/09/091109ta_talk_paumgarten]looks[/url] into why two Northwest pilots overshot their destination: </p> <p>[quote]Around the same time, researchers at Western Washington University released the results of an experiment in what’s called “inattentional blindness”—a state of such absorption in an activity that you fail to notice really obvious stuff around you, like a guy in a gorilla suit or the state of Wisconsin. In this particular case, it was a clown on a unicycle, pedalling through an open square on campus. Of the test subjects who were walking by while talking on their cell phones, roughly three out of four failed to see the clown; of those who were merely walking, and not talking, the number was much lower. The conclusion was that when you are on the phone you are out to lunch—unless you are actually out to lunch, in which case if you’re on the phone you aren’t really at lunch anymore. [/quote]</p> <p>When you're out to lunch really be out to lunch and put your telephone away, especially when you're with a friend. </p>