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How New Managers Can Handle Decision Fatigue
In this episode of New Manager Conversations, Lucas and Luna tackle decision fatigue — the hidden drain on new managers who suddenly face dozens of choices daily. Lucas shares research from a 2024 Cornell study showing managers make an average of 35 job-related decisions per day, with cognitive depletion setting in after the 20th. They discuss the 'decide once' principle used by figures like Obama and Zuckerberg, and walk through a practical example of a marketing manager at a midsize B2B SaaS company in Austin who reduced her decision count by 40 percent using a simple…
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