The findings revealed significant differences in the total posttest scores of creative thinking, flexibility, originality, and thinking performance scores of science task in favor of the NBT group, except in fluency, showed no significant advantage.
Though you can't get everything done at once, you can't completely neglect one task in favor of another.
"A survey of 500 American manufacturing and service companies," Lester points out, "found that only a third felt that their T.Q.M. programs were having a significant impact on their competitiveness". Or consider corporate reengineering, which eliminates specialized tasks in favor of involving workers in the whole production process.
By the end of the decade, says Thales, one of the world's largest makers of aircraft cockpits, pilots could start dispensing with buttons, trackballs and keypads for performing many routine flying tasks in favor of icons that can be dragged and slide-to-scroll menus.
Essentially, lawyers will be able to avoid some of the mundane tasks in favor of being able to focus on the nitty gritty aspects of each case.
If a newly arriving Mayo employee understands this mantra, then their daily tasks will be more meaningful and make more sense to them, and they'll also begin to understand when it may make sense to deviate from those tasks in favor of something unexpected that patient care may call for.
None of this is to suggest that the participants in these emerging political movements will put aside their own urgent tasks in favor of a traditional peace agenda, but rather that there are forces at work in the body politic that may eventually spark new synergies that will make the a reordering of federal priorities a genuine possibility.
This doesn't mean you have to have the work ethic of a rocket scientist or the routine of a military cadet, but it does mean that you have to be able to know how and when work is done, and not to blow off any important tasks in favor of having fun.
After the intervention between-group comparison revealed significant differences for gait velocity (U = 26, P = .041, r = .45) and for single support time (U = 24, P = .029, r = .48) during the fast walking dual task condition in favor of the dance group.
For instance, if you have a hard time studying because you always put the task off in favor of playing video games, leave your games at a friend's house over the weekend to give yourself the freedom to study.
Du Bois's bid for this task was rejected in favor of Washington's (Washington 1907).
