A study of Italian judges by Decio Coviello of HEC Montreal, Andrea Ichino of the University of Bologna and Nicola Persico of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School shows that those who are ‘heavy’ jugglers of legal cases, jumping from one to another in an attempt to make progress on as many as possible, end up taking longer to complete their portfolios of cases than those who are only ‘mild’ jugglers. When you’re doing tasks for multiple assigners, you feel pressure from all of them, and sometimes they even lobby you to put their tasks at the top of your queue.

(Source: hbr.org)

Published in Dawn, Economic & Business, February 9th, 2015

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