You’re reheating your coffee for the third time, half-listening to a conference call and taking inventory of your fridge to see what you can throw together for dinner. If this sounds familiar, you’re ...

How much of your day do you spend trying to multitask? Chances are it's even more time than you think, but most of us are no good at it. In fact, attempting to multitask usually ends in a worse ...

It was last week, when I almost walked into a bollard, that I decided to stop multitasking. I was pushing the pram while doing an online food shop on my phone, and I narrowly avoided bashing my head ...

If you have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you probably know the feeling of trying to do too many things at once. You start an email, then remember ...

Ben Slater is Sales & Marketing Director at Seed, a platform that applies marketing automation and data science to hiring. Follow @BenJHSlater. This post first appeared on the Seed Jobs blog. How many ...

During a conference call with the executive committee of a nonprofit board on which I sit, I decided to send an email to a client. Explore HBR HBR Store About HBR ...

I’m already better than I used to be. The first thing I do when setting up a new handset is turn off every notification. All ...