Focus on What Matters Most: 5 Leaders' Effective Strategies

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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 will help you refresh your thinking, make better decisions and prevent distraction from turning into burnout.

You’ll learn to:

• Rethink the first and last things you do each day can sharpen your attention
• To craft a morning “to-feel list” to clarify priorities and make days more meaningful
• To better appreciate the present to take control of your attention
• To thinking 'like an ancestor' can help you think beyond the short term

Insights from adventurers who sailed the pacific, an expert on human flourishing, a Buddhist Monk and a 3-time cancer survivor explore attention management, focus, deep work, reflection, long-term thinking and what's needed to improve leadership in a distracted world.

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