Multitasking is considered a fine art of management, but lenders expect managers to concentrate on their task. The three business economists Lorenz Graf-Vlachy, Simon Hensellek and Patrick Haack have therefore investigated how it happens that some entrepreneurs and top managers manage different large companies at the same time, how they justify this unusual arrangement to their owners and how they actually manage the impressive workload. After all, normal bosses work an average of 12.5 hours a day, so it seems mathematically and physiologically impossible to handle more than one job. Why do some people still make it? Such cases actually exist – and the current study has shown that it doesn’t necessarily have to go wrong.
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