Singletasking Get More Done#One Thing at a Time

Your Mind Can’t Be Two Places at Once

Too many of us have become addicted to the popular, enticing, dangerously misleading drug of multitasking. Devora Zack was once hooked herself. But she beat it and became more efficient, and you can too.

Zack marshals convincing neuroscientific evidence to prove that you really can’t do more by trying to tackle several things at once—it’s an illusion. There is a better way to deal with all the information and interruptions that bombard us today. Singletasking explains exactly how to clear and calm your mind, arrange your schedule and environment, and gently yet firmly manage the expectations of people around you so that you can accomplish a succession of tasks, one by one—and be infinitely more productive. Singletasking is the secret to success and sanity.

Devora Zack, CEO of Only Connect Consulting, Inc., provides leadership programs to over a hundred clients, such as Cornell University, Australian Institute of Management, London Business School, Deloitte, and the U.S. Department of Education. She has keynoted at the U.S. Treasury, the Smithsonian Institution, John Deere, the National Institutes of Health, and Mensa International. She is also the author of Managing for People Who Hate Managing.

PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: RECLAIM YOUR LIFE
Chapter 1. The Multitasking Myth
Chapter 2. The Singletasking Principle
PART TWO: REGAIN CONTROL
Chapter 3. Your Mind
Chapter 4. Your Days
Chapter 5. Your Interactions
PART THREE: RECALL WHAT MATTERS
Chapter 6. Action ≠ Results
Chapter 7. Home Sweet Home
APPENDIX: RETORTS TO MULTITASK HARDLINERS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR