The kind of tired your weekend cannot fix


There is a particular kind of tired showing up in senior leadership right now, and it does not match what is on the calendar. The week is reasonable on paper, the sleep is happening, the weekends are taken, and the vacations get scheduled and used. And then Tuesday morning arrives, the laptop opens, and within forty minutes the depletion is fully back, as if the weekend never happened. Most leaders read this feeling as needing more rest. They add an extra hour of sleep, an extra day off, a...