The Strategic Disconnect: Why Completing 23 Tasks Still Leaves You Feeling Unproductive (And How to Fix It)

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Last Tuesday, I received an email from a VP at a major corporation that perfectly captured what I’ve been observing across two decades of productivity consulting.

She wrote: “I completed 23 tasks yesterday, responded to 67 emails, attended four strategic meetings, and somehow feel like I accomplished absolutely nothing. What’s wrong with me?”

Nothing was wrong with her.

She was experiencing what I call Strategic Disconnection Syndrome, and she’s not alone.

During my years as a consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Accenture, I had unprecedented access to executives across hundreds of major corporations who hired our consulting services.

This exposed me to thousands of real-world productivity challenges spanning industries from automotive to travel, telecommunications to technology.

What I discovered was startling: the most accomplished professionals, those running multimillion-dollar divisions and leading thousands of employees, consistently reported feeling unproductive despite…