Why Do Smart Executives Make Bad Calls Under Pressure? | AI for Executives

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Send us Fan Mail Sahar Andrade, MB.BCh, breaks down new Harvard Business Review research on why executive stress now exceeds pandemic-era peaks and how it narrows the brain’s decision-making center. The neuroscience of bad calls under pressure, and the ten-second reset that fixes it New HBR research on why executive stress now exceeds pandemic-era peaks, and the ten-second reset that widens judgment back out. In this episode, Sahar unpacks the difference between sharp stress that sharpens performance and corrosive stress that erodes it, why the prefrontal cortex is the first system to lose bandwidth under sustained pressure, and why current executive stress levels are exceeding even the pandemic-era peak. She closes with the Pushback Beat every stretched executive is thinking and the ten-second protocol that widens judgment back out before a high-stakes call. Comment RESET for the Executive Pressure Reset, three tools built for your next high-stakes decision. Why do smart executives make bad decisions under pressure? What happens to the brain under sustained executive stress? Why is executive stress higher now than during the pandemic?

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