609: Why You Need to Stop Multitasking and Start Singletasking with Devora Zack
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 28 September 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Devora Zack debunks multitasking myths and shares how singletasking can help you get more done– one thing at a time.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why multitasking reduces your efficiency
2) How to unplug effectively
3) Why we get addicted to multitasking
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— ABOUT DEVORA —
Devora Zack is CEO of Only Connect Consulting, a Washington Post bestselling author and global speaker with books in 45 language translations. Her clients include Deloitte, Smithsonian, Delta Airlines, the FDA, Johns Hopkins, and the National Institutes of Health. She has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, US News & World Report, Forbes, Self, Redbook, Fast Company, and many others. She is the author of Networking for People Who Hate Networking, Managing for People Who Hate Managing and Singletasking.
• Book: Singletasking: Get More Done-One Thing at a Time
• Book: Managing for People Who Hate Managing: Be a Success by Being Yourself
• Website: MyOnlyConnect.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• Mythology: Odysseus
• Personality: Douglas Merrill on Multitasking
• Personality: Elinor Glyn
• Personality: Philo of Alexandria
• Personality: Steven Pressfield
• Term: Cluster tasking
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.1 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.2 | With your host, Pete McIdoz. |
| 0:16.2 | Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 600 Dine with Devorazac. |
| 0:23.6 | She is back in this time. |
| 0:25.2 | We are talking about multitasking. |
| 0:27.5 | Would you just love it? |
| 0:28.5 | It's so fun and thrilling and you get so much done and you feel super productive. |
| 0:33.5 | Or so we think Devorazac is going to debunk some myths and share how single tasking can |
| 0:39.5 | help us get all the more done. |
| 0:41.0 | You'll learn one why multitasking reduces your efficiency to how to unplug effectively |
| 0:47.0 | and three, why we can get addicted to multitasking. |
| 0:50.6 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to albums we've |
| 0:53.2 | referenced, drop on by awesome at your job.com slash ep6 is |
| 0:57.4 | 109 and you can see that there. |
| 1:00.1 | Now here's Devoraz story. |
| 1:01.3 | Devorazac is CEO of Only Connect Consulting, a Washington Post best selling author and |
| 1:06.3 | global speaker with books in 45 language translations or clients include Deloitte, Smithsonian, |
| 1:11.3 | Elter Airlines, the FDA, Johns Hopkins, and the National Institutes of Health. |
| 1:15.7 | She's been featured by the Wall Street Journal. |
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