The news that multitasking is bad isn’t even news anymore. In recent years, people have begun to recognize what psychologists have known for decades: If you try to do two things at the same time, ...

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You’ve likely heard that multitasking is problematic, but new studies show that it kills your performance and may even damage your brain.

Lauren Irwin-Szostak is the President and CEO of Business Processes Redefined, LLC and has over 30 years in the collections industry. In the fast-paced world of business, multitasking is a skill that ...

It's 7 p.m. You're e-mailing your boss, doing the dinner dishes, checking your 10-year-old's homework, and trying to calm your angry 3-year-old, who is screaming like a howler monkey. You'd like to ...

Many of us spend our busy days trying to multitask, doing two or more things at once even though numerous studies have found it rarely works as well as focusing attention on one task at a time.

“Multitasking” has become a bad word. Most research says that our brains aren’t truly capable of focusing on multiple things at once, but that doesn’t mean multitasking is evil. If you want to ...