Anyone who has spent any time with me knows that if I try to do more than one thing at the same time, none of those efforts are done well. I’m probably not too different from most of you. So for me to be effective as a manager or a partner or a father, it’s important that I stay focused on one thing at a time. Multitasking isn’t the ability to do multiple things at the same time. It’s a rapid shifting between multiple things without dedicating quality time to any one thing. The key here is “quality.”
For the first five years of TargetX, we provided our email broadcast tool (now called eXpress) to many industries — higher education, ...
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Welcome to the first of a series of posts related to the Campus Visit! Each month the Experience Team from TargetX will share with you a Campus Visit Tip, Trend and Talk. All of the “three T’s” are designed to give you a bit of insight into the work we do, the people we work with, and the places we pull our inspiration from.
There’s a scene in Disney/Pixar’s WALL-E where the humans are in their space cruiser, floating about on hover chaise lounges, focused only on their computer screens and oblivious to their surroundings and to reality. Two of the characters’ computers break and they have an epiphany. They discover that their space cruiser has a pool and they dip their toes in and begin splashing about. They live in the moment.