You are not burned out. You are not depressed. You just feel flat. And nothing you do seems to land the way it used to. There is a name for what is happening in your brain, and understanding it is the first step back to the leader you actually are.

You made the wrong call. You knew it was wrong. You still made it. Not because something was broken in you. Because your prefrontal cortex went offline and your amygdala ran the meeting. The neuroscience explains exactly what happened. Regulated leaders already know how to stop it before it starts.

89% of executives are convinced AI is working. Only 6% can prove it. The gap is not a measurement problem. It is biology. And the people paying for it are the middle managers caught between an executive who needs to believe and a team that has stopped pretending.