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Is Multitasking strength or weakness for Project Manager ? What do you think ?

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SHADAV MOHAMMAD ANSARI PMO| ITC INFOTECH INDIA PVT. Ltd. New Delhi, Delhi, India
Is Multitasking strength or weakness for Project Manager ? What do you think ?
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Arif Khalil Director| Halkaphulka Islamabad, Pakistan
It drains energy reporting and updating on more than 5 tasks in a day.
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Gaurav Dhooper Assistant Vice President| Genpact Noida, U.P., India
To me multi-tasking is not doing multiple tasks at one point of time. Instead it is the ability of doing different type of tasks at different times as and when needed. So, effectively a PM should be expert at doing multiple type of tasks at different times such as initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, communication, risk management, negotiation, conflict management and so on.
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Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada
Like Wade, the best I can do is task-switching. What I find helps is finding logical stopping points, rather than switching blindly.
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Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada
Mar 20, 2019 4:11 PM
Replying to Mayte Mata Sivera
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Long time ago someone in a job interview asked me " Are you a good multitasking?", my answer.. .yes, I can eat a sandwich while writing an e-mail.

If you are wondering...they never called me back.
Jajaja!
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George Freeman Thought Leader | Author | Architect| Florida, United States
I once believed that I was a good “on demand task switcher” until I tried to manage 10+ active instant messaging windows while having two unfinished draft e-mails, a line outside my office and my primary task for the day left untouched on my desk.

Now, I’m at my desk but for some odd reason my IM status always says “in a meeting”. I wonder what made that happen?
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Khai Ng. IT PMO | IT Project Manager| TTGROUP Hanoi, Viet Nam
It is strength for sure! But quality is much depended on the type, the number, and the complexity of work.
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Ganesh Kumar Program Manager Bangalore., Karnataka, India
Hi Shadav,
It’s a strength if you know, how to choose which task to multitask. You can multitask two simple things. You cannot multitask, when you are doing complex task.
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