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She stayed up nights, she said, trying to think of tasks for her sole assistant, a young, dauntingly efficient German woman.
"I try to think of tasks which the hand allows me to be at an advantage," Burdett wrote via e-mail, "but all I can come up with are testing spaghetti right out of the boiling water, or pulling things out of liquid nitrogen".
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To better understand the changes and how they affect our job as directors, it is useful to think of the tasks and the agenda items of the board as being broadly divided into a balance of what I call "grounding" and "stargazing".
You may be able to help prepare the garden for its winter nap but, again, think of the tasks that would be challenging for you.
Bonita could always think of some task or job for the girl, whether it was collecting eggs, picking over beans, or discovering the section of broken fence where the cows got out.
Alternatively, one can think of this task as a visual pattern completion task.
And I think there's really something to this: framing effects can be very influential, and to the degree that you can think of a task as close rather than distant, you're more likely to actually get it done.
But Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union — who strongly supported the man Mr. Bloomberg defeated, William C. Thompson Jr. — said that the mayor should think of the task the way a product manager might.
Nonetheless, the findings, reported last year in the journal Psychological Science, show that when you think of a task in less abstract terms you can get a handle on it and finish it sooner.
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