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Send us Fan Mail I am Sahar Andrade, MB.BCh, a Neuroleadership Coach and Forbes Coaches Council member, and here is the direct answer. The day feels lost before it starts because the day starts earlier than the calendar says. Leaders process threats, rehearse rooms, and clear small choices in private, then walk into the first meeting with less capacity than the meeting needs. The Deloitte 2026 Global Human Capital Trends report found 60% of executives now regularly use AI to support decisions, and only 5% say they manage it well. Decision quality tends to fall as decision volume climbs. The work starts before the calendar, not inside it. What does this episode cover? The private hour before the first meeting, and why it is the most expensive hour on an executive calendar. The four artifacts that now arrive in that hour that did not exist three years ago. What the research actually supports about decision fatigue, including the replication failures that killed the popular version of it. What high AI oversight costs in measured terms. And four moves that return decision capacity to a day that has none. Why does AI adoption add decision load instead of removing it?

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