In a world of seemingly endless tasks and action-items, the ability to know when something is finally done is extremely important.  Even if you know when something is done, what do you do if someone on your team doesn’t seem to know when a task is complete? Not knowing when something’s done relates to the problems of the “perfection paradox.”  It is all about a lack of confidence and the fear of being less than perfect.  The unconscious thinking is that if I don’t complete anything, I can’t be judged and found to be imperfect.  Sounds like a great plan, right? This is ...

Many companies are looking for qualified job candidates witht he ability to multi-task.  Of course, multi-tasking is another way of saying, “We have more things to do than time allotted, so can you keep up?”  But is multi-tasking truly effective? Multi-tasking implies that multiple tasks are occurring at the same time.  As if it would be effective to work on this year’s budget while simultaneously designing a magazine advertisement for the marketing department.  The problem with the idea of multi-tasking is that our brain is not set up to switch tasks that way.  According to an article published in the ...