Multitask or Unitask?

[Dagney]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

many jobs require multi-tasking, if you can't multi-task you aren't going to make it.

Multitasking is not something that a human is easily able to achieve - we're more single threaded than multi threaded. Get too much going and our 'processors' can't handle the load.

When planning for a large project, for example, designing and developing a software system, the Gantt chart that most Project Managers work off of, won't allow you to assign multiple tasks to the same person/resource at one time, because of the inherent inability for that person to do two things at one time.

Granted, some positions require a person to do a lot of things in a short period of time - but this is not 'multi-tasking', it's more time management and effort driven focus.