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Managers are searching for strategies to deal with this inundation. Many find themselves working nights, weekends and vacations to tackle the most strategic issues because they are forced to deal with "all the other stuff" during the regular workday. This is why so many managers and workers — no matter what profession, rank or industry — find themselves moving things to do to the next day.

This is what I call Martin's Law of Inundation, which says

You cannot really perform the number of tasks you have to do within the timeframe allotted.

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If you dramatically increase the number of tasks you perform within a given period of time, the number of tasks handed to you will be increased exponentially before all the first tasks are completed.