Leadership under pressure is not analysis paralysis. In emergency leadership, you have to act, and you have to remain composed under pressure to ensure you have a positive outcome, or at least to find the path to the best outcome a situation affords. In the brain, the first second the brain receives an impulse that a catastrophe has occurred, the message transmits to other areas of the cortex. How do we control our anatomy so that we can make better decisions under pressure?
