Most of us don’t design our mornings, we inherit them, says productivity expert Donna McGeorge By 11 Dec 2025 By the time most leaders sit down at their desks, they’ve already spent a chunk of their best energy. They’ve triaged emails, squeezed in early meetings, and handled “just one quick thing” that ballooned into an hour. It’s barely 10 a.m. and their attention is already diluted, their decision-making fatigued.