Nationality American Name Dave Crenshaw Occupation Writer, Speaker Role Author | Style Interactive, Humorous Website www.DaveCrenshaw.com | |
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Known for Writing, Time Management Notable work The Myth of Multitasking,
Invaluable Books The Myth of Multitasking: How "Doi, The Focused Business, Invaluable: The Secret to Becomi | ||
Alma mater Brigham Young University | ||
The myth of multitasking dave crenshaw
Dave Crenshaw (born 1975) is an American author, public speaker, small business and time management expert. His books The Myth of Multitasking: How "Doing It All" Gets Nothing Done and Invaluable: The Secret to Becoming Irreplaceable have been adapted for teaching by some universities and cited or referenced in the works of some writers.
Contents
- The myth of multitasking dave crenshaw
- Time management essentials dave crenshaw why multi tasking is slowing you down
- Background
- Career
- Publications
- References
Time management essentials dave crenshaw why multi tasking is slowing you down
Background
Crenshaw earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Management with emphasis in Entrepreneurship from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University in 2000.
A clinical psychologist once diagnosed Crenshaw with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). According to Cathy Allred in the Daily Herald of Utah, Crenshaw was able to harness his own chaos and through his career choice as a business coach, has helped others manage time well through coaching and self-help books dealing with time management and productivity.
Career
Crenshaw began his career in 1998 as an independent consultant for a large consulting firm for small businesses. He is also a Lynda.com's author and presenter of over 10 business skills courses, including "Time Management Fundamentals" and "Small Business Secrets".
The BBC News described Crenshaw as a multitasking expert, and wrote that Crenshaw says that to be productive it is best not to multi-task at all. Crenshaw is described by Mark Lewis in Forbes as a productivity consultant, and wrote that Crenshaw says that multitaskers think they are doing two or more things simultaneously, when actually they are switching rapidly back and forth between tasks. Joyce E.A. Russell wrote in The Washington Post that Crenshaw says that multitasking should be called switchtasking because if you really examined what you are doing you would see that people are just rapidly switching from one task to another, and as we are not very good at it, it can have some consequences, actually hurting our productivity because of the time lost making even fast switches.
The Myth of Multitasking: How "Doing It All" Gets Nothing Done was written by Crenshaw and published in 2008 by Jossey-Bass, an imprint of Wiley. Dennis Lythgoe described The Myth of Multitasking: How "Doing It All" Gets Nothing Done in the Deseret News as a candid and satirical little book that takes on one of the most talked about social myths of the modern scene – multitasking. Jossey-Bass also published Crenshaw's book, Invaluable: The Secret to Becoming Irreplaceable in 2010. Jim Pawlak summarized Invaluable: The Secret to Becoming Irreplaceable in the Silicon Valley Business Journal that Crenshaw provides a number of fill-in-the-blanks templates that help you identify your most valuable activities (MVAs) and manage time effectively. Crenshaw's book on entrepreneurship, The Focused Business: How Entrepreneurs Can Triumph Over Chaos was published in 2013.
Crenshaw has been a keynote speaker for many small business events, including EO Alchemy 2012 — Seattle, Crown Council's 18th Annual Event, Schnizzfest 2013, Behind Every Leader, TiE Silicon Valley and LTB 2014.
Publications
Some of the books written by Crenshaw are: