Category: Leadership & Culture

Given our growing addiction to newness (per Nature Communications), we’re finding it tougher to focus.

In fact, did you know that researchers found that only 2.5% of us can be effective multi-taskers? And that, as marketing leaders and CEOs, it’s getting tougher to cultivate critical thinking?

Yes, FOMO (fear of missing out) is a real thing. I see it first-hand among some of my friends, as well as some clients.

And it’s killing strategic thinking and creativity in our organizations….

It takes a leap of faith to unplug and stop moving from crisis to crisis. Yet the rewards are many, especially when you bring that mindset to work. Yes, work.
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Many senior marketing leaders and CEOs whom I’ve met think of their lives as an “either/or” proposition. They are either relaxed and unplugged OR overworked and hyper-connected.

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