Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Dysfunctional Multi-Tasking

For many years multi-tasking has been considered a gift of womanhood. It is the ability to think about and do more than one thing at a time. From working with hundreds of women business owners over the last 10 years, I've come to the realization that multi-tasking is one of the key reasons women-run businesses do not do as well as they want, or could. I call this dysfunctional multi-tasking.

Regular multi-tasking is doing things such as talking on the phone while typing emails, making phone calls from the car and so on. Dysfunctional multi-tasking is trying to run multiple projects, companies and initiatives all at the same time; and doing them poorly.

When has multi-tasking gotten in your way and what did you do about it?

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