The issue isn’t that people aren’t working hard—it’s that their focus is constantly breaking.
Tiny disruptions rarely look dangerous in the moment.
Yet every interruption resets mental flow.
Decisions slow down.
Stack enough of these, and output quietly collapses.
Elite teams don’t chase productivity hacks—they remove friction.
Because effort isn’t the bottleneck.
It’s constant interruption.
If your impact of distractions on decision making team feels busy but results aren’t there, this is why.