Business decisions that used to take weeks now happen in hours, forcing middle managers to constantly sense risk and justify outcomes to leadership. Over the past 12 to 18 months, supply chains lost any recovery window, creating cognitive overload and burnout.
And the decision cycles have collapsed. We are not talking about weeks, days, or sometimes even hours to make a decision. And the teams are expected to sense risk, decide fast, explain outcomes to leaderships. And I think the net effect of all these things is a cognitive overload, I would say, and burnout at the middle management level. If I have to say in one line, I would say that it's It's not the disruptions which has changed. I think it's the fact that there is no recovery window anymore when it comes to supply chain. That, that's the biggest change I've seen in the last 12 to 18 months.
