<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/72202d14-b479-45a4-9bf9-fc60ea28e79c/4B188511-91F0-429A-8FB8-0083C0A9CA1E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/08/ban-blackberrys-meetings-leadership-blackberry.html" href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/08/ban-blackberrys-meetings-leadership-blackberry.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.forbes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/08/ban-blackberrys-meetings-leadership-blackberry.html">Multitaskers think they are doing two or more things simultaneously, when actually they are switching rapidly back and forth between tasks, says Dave Crenshaw, a productivity consultant from Eagle Mountain, Utah, and the author of <EM>The Myth of Multitasking</EM>. Each time they switch, Crenshsaw says, they lose time and focus. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/08/ban-blackberrys-meetings-leadership-blackberry.html">"Being busy and being productive are not the same," says Denise Landers, a time-management consultant based in Houston. "I definitely believe that banning BlackBerrys from a conference room would lead to shorter and more effective meetings. We simply cannot multitask and perform at 100%."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/08/ban-blackberrys-meetings-leadership-blackberry.html">"It's very damaging in meetings," he says. "What happens is meetings get longer," as the multitaskers reluctantly tear themselves from their BlackBerrys or iPhones to focus on the live discussion. Everyone else must pause while the distracted multitasker is brought up to speed: "They keep saying, 'Can you repeat that?' "</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4B188511-91F0-429A-8FB8-0083C0A9CA1E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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