In a fast-paced business culture of "get everything done yesterday," it's easy to admire and reward those busybusy people who always seem to be juggling 14 things at once. But business coach Dave ...

“We cannot actually multitask,” says Alison Matthey, founder and president of Dynamic Leadership Group. “If you say you’re good at multitasking, erase that from your resume. You are not good at it ...

The other day I was on a call with a client, a senior executive of a smallish life sciences company. I asked a question and heard dead silence on the other end of the line. After a few uncomfortable ...

As a CEO, I know that one of the best things to come out of the past year is the accelerated acceptance of a hybrid work model. Employees have done a remarkable job balancing the typical distractions ...

How long can you go without checking email, or glancing at your smartphone? Clifford Nass, a psychology professor at Stanford University, says today's nonstop multitasking actually wastes more time ...

The time has come to pop a long, sharp stickpin in the rumblings that men are less than equal at multitasking. “I don’t believe the functional data supports that,” reports neuro-psychologist Marcel ...

There is a sense of pride often felt when multitasking, as if we have defied human nature by completing more than one high-level brain task at a time, rendering us both superhuman and incredibly ...

Technology has so many advantages, but some devices that were designed to make us more productive, are now creating a new set of productivity problems. When laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs) ...

Like many wired people, you probably take great pride in being a multitasker. You talk on your mobile phone, send e-mail, check the stock market online, and perhaps even read a letter and jot down ...