By the time most leaders sit down at their desks, they’ve already spent a chunk of their best energy. They’ve triaged emails, squeezed in early meetings, and handled “just one quick thing” that ballooned into an hour. It’s barely 10 a.m. and their attention is already diluted, their decision-making fatigued.
In my work as an executive leadership coach, I see every day what the studies have been showing us for years. Our brain’s capacity to make good decisions depletes as the...