Employee engagement is one of the most searched leadership topics today. Organizations want higher productivity, stronger collaboration, more innovation, and healthier workplace culture. And it's true that engaged employees drive performance and profit. But what if the very people you rely on most—the high achievers, the hardest workers, the always-on team members—are unknowingly sabotaging their own cognitive capacity and crippling company culture in the process? There’s a neurological explanation for this. And it has a name. Attention Deficit Trait (ADT) is a term coined by Edward Hallowell to describe a condition of brain overload caused by the work environment.
