Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Melinda French Gates said she tends to focus on one task at a time to avoid mistakes. She said multitasking is a myth and led to ...

Have you ever gotten good at the wrong thing? I think it might have happened to me. Yesterday, I read this article about the myth of multitasking -- how what we once thought of as skillful juggling is ...

Melinda French Gates said she tends to focus on one task at a time to avoid mistakes. She said multitasking is a myth and led to errors in her career. During her career at Microsoft, multitasking was ...

Melinda French Gates believes in taking on tasks one at a time. During a Monday appearance for her new book, "The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward," French Gates responded to a ...