Multitasking - always tricky, often silly

Our view switches from local to global, global to local. When we focus on a piece of work, we’re local, when we sit back and review all the projects on our desk, we’re global. One minute the worker, next minute the manager of all the workers (even if we’re the only worker).

So, overload is a condition of management, it means we have too many pressing concerns fighting for conscious activity at the same time. The only solution is to go global and re-arrange the flow of work coming into our local focus, into our field of actual execution…[more]