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...jobs that use my varied skills in accounting, paralegal services and IT. During my stints of underemployment, I have probably taken a job away from someone already in that line of work, as when I worked at a customer-service job. This makes it harder for people like Roshonda Crenshaw, who was quoted in your article. Corporations are using the recession as an excuse to accelerate negative labor practices. IBM, for example, has by one estimate laid off nearly 10,000 people so far this year, while recording huge profits and continuing to hire offshore...
...Myth of Multitasking (How 'Doing It All' Gets Nothing Done) By Dave Crenshaw Jossey-Bass; 138 pages...
...gently ridicules the idea that anyone can concentrate on two things at the same time. What we're really doing, he says, is "switchtasking"--switching back and forth quickly and inefficiently from one task to the next. And when we give people our segmented attention and piecemeal time, says Crenshaw, "we end up damaging relationships." So put down that damn BlackBerry, as it were...
...minded players such as former Open champions Nick Faldo and Ben Hogan, who dedicated their lives to studying the angles and positions of an accurate swing. The latter approach embraces more poetical notions like rhythm, focus and visualization, and is exemplified by "feel" players such as the Texan Ben Crenshaw, who credited his 1995 U.S. Masters victory to the mental strength instilled in him by his golf mentor Harvey Penick, and who mused mysteriously that the U.S. Ryder Cup team won in 1999 because "there was something in the trees...
...take control of our education and build the kind of learning environment that we wanted the school to provide us,” said Crenshaw, the BLSA’s representative to the Third World Coalition...