The attached article from the Harvard Business Review covers one of our favorite topics, multitasking: discussing its negative impact to your performance and energy levels.
Peak performance comes from periods of intense focus, combined with other time set aside for renewal. Creating the right conditions to focus when it’s time to focus, and to ensure you take the time to renew on a planned basis, and following through on those plans become key to achieving performance. This is equally true in both personal and business settings.
The regular pressures of personal and business commitments tend to make the average person a frenzied multitasker, while also motivating them to skimp (i.e. skip) their periods of renewal. It’s the perfect recipe for declining cognitive performance (a topic of our upcoming whitepaper).
In the attached, the author provides specific recommendations for both the business manager and individual on how create better focus during those times requiring high levels of attention, along with recommendations for reinforcing and encouraging periods of renewal.
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