The plate is already full

I have sat in enough leadership rooms to know the default move. Someone misses a deadline. A project stalls. The energy in the team feels off. And almost without thinking, the conversation turns to the individual. Their skills. Their commitment. Their fit. I have...

The inbox that owns us

We throw away the junk mail without opening it. Glance, sort, trash. It takes seconds. We feel nothing about it. But the email? That is different. It follows us everywhere. We carry it in our pocket. We wake to it. We let it interrupt dinners, derail mornings, and...

We’re not busy. We’re distracted

We tell ourselves we don’t have enough time. The calendar is full. The inbox never empties. The list grows faster than we work through it. But time is not scarce. Focus is. We have built environments that make sustained attention nearly impossible. Tabs stacked...

The thinking deficit

Most leaders are drowning in action but starving for thought. Here’s what the research tells us: Harvard Business Review found that CEOs spend less than 3% of their time on strategic thinking. McKinsey reports that executives spend 72% of their time in meetings,...

MOTT: Your Choice

I came across a question recently that stopped me cold: What do you do most of the time? Not what you wish you did or what you tell yourself you should do. What actually fills your days? The real question beneath it is more unsettling: Are you satisfied with what you...