New data-processing technology could break "cognitive" jobs down into smaller and smaller tasks.
"When they get us in the eighth inning, they give our bullpen smaller tasks, so to speak," Manuel said.
REWARD GOOD BEHAVIOR Break up assignments into smaller tasks, then reward yourself for meeting each mini-goal.
Customarily, volunteers who work along the trail perform smaller tasks like clearing brush, cutting new trails, maintaining shelters and building rock stairways and small bridges.
He suggested a rule might ban firms from performing large amounts of internal audit work for audit clients, but still allow smaller tasks to be performed.
Here may be the secret to meeting a big self-imposed deadline: First, divide the work into smaller tasks and set deadlines for every one of them.
An AI programmer begins by taking a problem a computer is meant to solve and breaking it down into smaller tasks, to be dealt with by particular subsystems.
These collaborations are widely viewed as the next step in distributed-computing projects, which break down complex computations into many smaller tasks that are parceled out via the Net to volunteers' computers.
The company argued that it paid drivers for activities that included other, smaller tasks and could not have a separate payment designation for everything they did, some of which took just minutes.
The ESPN soccer producer Chris Alexopolous was a production assistant ("cutting video, doing some of the smaller tasks …") who worked World Cups up to and including 2006; he had also worked covering multiple sports for the network.
Keep a list and feel the sense of achievement when you tick off one of those smaller tasks; feeling unproductive can often come about if we're daunted by our work.
