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 ...

Back to work is harder than ever for lots of us this January — I’m talking to you, parents of young children doing online learning (myself included). If you feel like you’re terrible at multitasking, ...

Albert Einstein said: "Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." This quote highlights a damning fault in our attention spans ...

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 ...

Thomas Edison wasn't much of a fisherman. But he was a great inventor. And the two are linked. He was known to stroll to a pier near his laboratory, dangle his line in the water, and wait patiently ...

It was between 15 and 20 years ago that I first got comfortable on a computer. As a kid, I swung more Millennial with access to my parents' Macintosh personal computer and a pearl white iBook, but as ...