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Training your brain like an athlete.The Cognitive Athlete Podcast helps leaders, thinkers, and doers achieve sustainable peak performance without burnout.
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The Accountability Trap: When People Are Expected to Own What Has Never Been Made Clear (opens the original)
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The Accountability Trap: When People Are Expected to Own What Has Never Been Made Clear Leaders often say they want more accountability. More ownership. More follow-through. But accountability becomes very difficult when expectations are unclear, performance is hidden and conversations only happen when something has already gone wrong. In Episode 8 of Season 4, The Performance Traps , Clint Rahe explores why accountability is not something you demand from people after the fact. It is something y
The Collaboration Trap: When Involving Everyone Starts Slowing Everything Down (opens the original)
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The Collaboration Trap: When Involving Everyone Starts Slowing Everything Down Collaboration is supposed to make work better. But what happens when involving more people starts slowing decisions, blurring ownership and filling calendars with meetings that do not move anything forward? In Episode 7 of Season 4, The Performance Traps , Clint Rahe explores the point where collaboration stops improving the outcome and starts becoming organisational drag. You will discover: Why more involvement does
The Empathy Trap: When Helping Starts Becoming Carrying (opens the original)
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The Empathy Trap: When Helping Starts Becoming Carrying Empathy is essential in leadership. But what happens when supporting someone quietly turns into carrying their workload, their problem and the conversation you are avoiding? In Episode 6 of Season 4, The Performance Traps , Clint Rahe explores the point where empathy can start working against both the leader and the team. You will discover: Why good intentions can turn into over-accommodation How leaders end up carrying both the practical a
The Urgency Trap: When Everything Becomes a Priority, Nothing Is (opens the original)
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The Urgency Trap: When Everything Becomes a Priority, Nothing Is A last-minute report. An “ASAP” email. A customer request that suddenly becomes the team’s emergency. A priority that changes halfway through the day. In Episode 5 of Season 4, The Performance Traps , Clint Rahe explores how constant urgency fragments attention, destroys planning and creates teams that are permanently reacting. You will discover: Why poor planning often travels downhill as urgency How constant task-switching fragme
The Perfection Trap: When High Standards Start Slowing You Down (opens the original)
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The Perfection Trap: When High Standards Start Slowing You Down High standards can drive performance. But what happens when your standard becomes the only acceptable way of doing the work? In Episode 4 of Season 4, The Performance Traps , Clint Rahe explores how perfectionism can shift from a strength into a leadership bottleneck. Starting with a personal story about a working relationship that broke down after repeated corrections and rework, this episode looks at what happens when leaders stru
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