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To Multitask Effectively, Focus on Value, Not Volume
In organizations however, the implication is much more pernicious because individual performance, for better or worse, is multiplied and amplified many times over. If dozens of people are reducing their effectiveness by multitasking, then the organization runs the risk of being tied up in knots.
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Despite starting the research on 100 college students with the hypothesis that multitaskers had some special abilities, the study found that multitaskers were actually quite ineffective at managing information, maintaining attention, and getting results. Compared to study participants who did things one task at a time, they were mediocre.
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let me suggest that the alternative to multitasking is not single-tasking. In this day and age, that would be too slow. Rather the answer is to shift our mindsets from a focus on volume to a focus on value
Brain Rules: The brain cannot multitask
Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time. At first that might sound confusing; at one level the brain does multitask. You can walk and talk at the same time. Your brain controls your heartbeat while you read a book. Pianists can play a piece with left hand and right hand simultaneously. Surely this is multitasking. But I am talking about the brain’s ability to pay attention. It is the resource you forcibly deploy while trying to listen to a boring lecture at school. It is the activity that collapses as your brain wanders during a tedious presentation at work. This attentional ability is not capable of multitasking.
Les « digital natives » la génération multi-écrans
Même s'ils sont très proches des « Y » en terme de consommation de produits numériques, leur comportement est déjà très marqué. Étant père de quatre garçons dont trois sont des « Y » dans la vingtaine, mon petit dernier qui a onze ans m'intrigue, me questionne et je suis en passe de me demander si nous ne sommes pas en présence du premier type d'espèce que l'on pourrait nommer « Homo numericus ». Puisque que j'ai la chance d'avoir un spécimen sous la main, voici quelques points et anecdotes tirés de mes observations:
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