Why you cannot outwork the four-hour ceiling


There is a category of cognitive ceiling that almost no senior leader's calendar respects, and the gap between what the calendar asks of the leader and what the brain is physically capable of producing is the largest single source of avoidable decision-quality loss in modern senior leadership. The research is unambiguous and has been for decades. Florida State University and other cognitive psychology programs have established that the upper limit on what researchers call deliberate cognitive...