Comments on: 5 Life Lessons Learned from Multitasking https://6sigma.com/5-life-lessons-learned-from-multitasking/ Six Sigma Certification and Training Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:46:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Frank Bradley https://6sigma.com/5-life-lessons-learned-from-multitasking/#comment-25525 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:45:21 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=8371#comment-25525 Great article. One thing I’ve learned when trying to tackle multi-tasking is the importance of having a plan and knowing what it is you want to achieve. I find that if I don’t think about what I want to achieve before sitting down to do a day’s work, that I’ll simply jump from activity to activity ending up with no achievements for the day.

]]> By: Dan Markovitz https://6sigma.com/5-life-lessons-learned-from-multitasking/#comment-25524 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:05:35 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=8371#comment-25524 Pete,

Your comment about damaged relationships reminds me of what Tachi Yamada, head of the Gates Foundation Global Health Program, said:

“I don’t have a mobile phone turned on because I’m talking to you. I don’t want the outside world to impinge on the conversation we’re having. I don’t carry a BlackBerry. I do my e-mails regularly, but I do it when I have the time on a computer. I don’t want to be sitting here thinking that I’ve got an e-mail message coming here and I’d better look at that while I’m talking to you. Every moment counts, and that moment is lost if you’re not in that moment 100 percent.”

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