How to Focus on What Matters Most: 5 Leaders' Effective Strategies

How do you focus on what matters most in a distracted and noisy world? In this special Meet the Leader episode, leading thinkers and adventurers share practical ways to reclaim your attention and sharpen your focus so you can spend your time on the right priorities. Their strategies and approaches for leaders will help you refresh your thinking, make better decisions and prevent distraction from turning into burnout.

Leaders will learn to:

• Rethink the first and last things you do each day to sharpen your attention
• Craft a "to-feel list" to clarify priorities and make days more meaningful
• Better appreciate the present to take control of your attention
• Think 'like an ancestor' to help you think beyond the short term

Featured voices include human flourishing expert and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt; writer and three-time cancer survivor Suleika Jaouad; blind adventurer Hiro Iwamoto and navigator Doug Smith; Nia Tero CEO Aulani Wilhelm; and Buddhist monk Shoukei Matsumoto. Together, they explore attention management, focus, deep work, reflection, long-term thinking and improving leadership in a distracted world.

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