Business

Organizations don’t just run on strategy and operations—they run on human dashboards: Energy, Recovery, Status, Attention, and Connection across teams and leadership.

This section looks at the Inner Control Panel as a tool for culture, leadership, burnout, and decision-making.

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Start with a shared language for teams

• The Dashboard and The Operator
  A simple story you can use with teams to reframe burnout and overwhelm.
• The Five Dials
  A way to talk about workload, recovery, status dynamics, focus, and belonging without pathologizing people.
• The Shared Language of the Inner Control Panel
  How the “audio equalizer” metaphor can become a non-threatening way to talk about overload, envy, or disconnection at work.

Articles that map well to business

• It’s Not Laziness, It’s the Stingy Energy CFO
  Useful for understanding “low motivation” and energy budget in knowledge work.
• The Dirty Windshield
  Attention as a scarce corporate resource in a meeting- and notification-heavy environment.
• The Myth of the Solo Pilot
  Why “lone hero” culture burns people out and how connection acts as a resilience multiplier.

How to use this in practice

Use the ICP:

• as a diagnostic lens in 1:1s and performance reviews,
• as a framework in leadership offsites and retrospectives,
• as a way to design policies that respect Energy, Recovery, Status, Attention, and Connection instead of fighting them.

Over time, this section will grow with more concrete examples, templates, and organizational experiments.