Multi-Tasking -- Or Is It?
Too many law firm boomers who find themselves getting older and slower, one dimension of the much discussed intergenerational issue is particularly vexing: the claim of the successor generation that they think faster, work faster, cover more ground, and cope better with ambiguity and distraction - while producing results that rival the quality of their elders.
"Multi-tasking" has become such a common phrase in the lexicon of Gen Y (and of Gen Xers with a lot of stamina) that it has come to be taken as a given. Somehow, the argument goes, the exponential increase in the speed of our computer circuit boards and the technologies they support has created an astonishing evolutionary leap, resulting in a generation whose speed of perception, cognition, processing and response are markedly faster than prior generations.
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