The modern era of high-stakes, high-pressure jobs is also the age of burnout. And this burnout not only drains profit margins, but also comes at a societal cost. Today, rebuilding human attention is a trillion-dollar, global wellbeing imperative. The leaders who can unlock attentional engineering will drive global prosperity with agility, resilience, and empathy. So, let’s start a dialogue on how to reclaim attention in the age of burnout—and stem our productivity losses.We’ve all experienced it: mid-meeting, your mind drifts to tomorrow’s deadline or a recent email. The conversation continues, but something subtle gets missed. Even though you do everything right, the results don’t land the way you expected. What happened? An evolutionary glitch. Because when we check out mentally, we don’t just lose minutes. We lose the moment when a teammate needs support. The insight buried in a colleague’s comment. The red flag in a client’s tone. Their subtle hesitation. The board member's unspoken frustration. Mind-wandering isn’t benign. It’s the silent killer of collaboration, service, and innovation.
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