Looking for the way to get an edge on the competition has always been the quest of many an aspiring entrepreneur or business leader. How do you do to keep ahead of the competition… the guy chasing you down the field when you’re running for the goal line? Many feel that the ability to multitask is the key.

According to studies, women are better at multitasking than men, a wonderful attribute for a female office manager, and executive… a stay-at-home mom with babies or small children. In tribal cultures, men typically hunt for food by day while the women stay in the village to care for children and prepare food. While the women multitask in order to keep track of the various projects around the village, the men often engage in singly focused activities: hunting and fishing for example.

The ability of a man to stay tuned in to a single task, like sneaking up on tonight’s dinner, or waiting for a fish to get within spear’s reach, is equally as valuable as multitasking. But what if you’re a man in the hectic world of business, fielding phone calls and juggling stacks of papers, managing multiple projects? Wouldn’t we be better and more effective if we were be able to multitask?

A Search For a Solution

That’s exactly what Jack Stephan thought as he rambled around the Colorado Springs branch of Bank of America. “I get so lost sometimes,” he told us when we spoke to him on his lunch break. “I’ll be sitting there and someone will walk up and ask me a question. It can be about work, or sometimes it’s about something like ‘How’s that thing on your face?’ Then they’ll leave and I have to retrace my thoughts to remember what I was doing 30 seconds ago.”