RE: Mutlitasking and time management

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Donna, it might have started as a joke, but your "hat trick" is worth at
*least* three points! Filing it for future use...

Thanks,

Dan 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jones, Donna
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 11:29 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Mutlitasking and time management
> 
> Here's an interesting article about why multitasking often 
> doesn't work.
> 
>   http://biz.yahoo.com/weekend/multitask_1.html
> 
> 
> As a joke a few months ago, I printed pictures of different 
> hats off of the internet. On each of nine hats, I wrote 
> the name of a different project or assignment. The hats are 
> tacked up at the entrance to my cubicle on a paper labeled 
> "Hats available." At the bottom of that paper, it says, "To 
> add more hats, see [my manager]." Another paper next to it 
> is labeled "Hat that I'm wearing now," and I move over the
> appropriate one or more hats. At the bottom of that paper, 
> it says, "NOTE: Changing hats may cause documentation 
> delays." It's been fun switching the hats around, and it's 
> a visual representation of when I'm trying to do too many 
> things at once (if I can't stick all of the hats onto 
> that second page, I know there's a problem). The SMEs who 
> have seen the hats have gotten a kick out of them. If their 
> hat isn't being "worn," they can see why, and they can ask 
> about when I'll be working on their project. Sometimes my 
> manager will come over and tell me that she's changing my 
> hat...
> 
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