58. Leadership Superpower #3: Leading with Focus Amid Uncertainty and Noise

In this episode of Grounded and Aligned™, Karen Gombault addresses a pressure most senior leaders recognize immediately: how to stay focused when the organization feels unsettled.

A new CEO, a reorganization, acquisitions, limited communication, and leadership turnover can quickly create uncertainty. At the same time, messages, meetings, and internal speculation compete for your attention.

If you are operating with significant scope, your ability to decide what deserves your focus becomes central to your effectiveness. This episode looks at how senior leaders can direct their attention deliberately and avoid being pulled into noise that adds no value.

Karen looks at -

• How leadership changes and reorganizations increase distraction and dilute executive attention
• The discipline of focusing on what you can control, including decisions, time allocation, and priorities
• The expectation that senior leaders provide steadiness when teams feel unsettled
• The impact of gossip and speculation on anxiety, productivity, and decision quality
• The cumulative effect of constant digital interruption on focus and performance
• How dissatisfaction or stagnation in a role can make distraction more likely

At VP and SVP level, focus is not a personal productivity preference. It directly affects your credibility and impact. In uncertain conditions, your attention determines what moves forward and what stalls. Choosing where you invest it is part of the role. Next steps

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