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The Hidden Productivity Cost of Decision Fatigue
Lucas and Luna explore how decision fatigue quietly drains productivity across organizations, using a study from a major hospital system that found prescription errors rose 28% after four hours of continuous decision-making. They trace the phenomenon to a landmark 1998 experiment by social psychologist Roy Baumeister, then show how companies like Google and Starbucks have structurally reduced small decisions to protect cognitive bandwidth. Lucas cites a 2023 McKinsey estimate that the average knowledge worker makes 35,000 decisions per day, while Luna points to research from Cornell…
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