A poorly designed calendar doesn’t just waste time — it generates cognitive drain before your most important work has even started. A few weeks ago I introduced the concept of Decision Fatigue — the well-documented cognitive phenomenon where the quality of our decision-making degrades progressively as we make more decisions across the day. Each choice,…
Welcome to Operationally Speaking — my monthly series where I break down business terms you hear all the time but rarely see explained with enough clarity to actually use. Most business language sounds impressive. But when you ask five people what a term means, you often get five different answers — and none of them…
If you’re exhausted by 2pm, it’s probably not your workload. It’s your decision volume — and there’s a smarter way to manage it. Here’s a scenario that might feel familiar.It’s early afternoon. You haven’t done anything obviously strenuous. And yet you feel like you’ve run a marathon. The important work — the thing you told…
