Jacob shut his laptop with a heavy sigh, rubbing his temples as the meeting he left almost an hour ago replayed again in his mind. No matter how hard he tried to refocus, his anger at the meeting’s disorganization and pointlessness kept distracting him. He had already postponed the one-on-one scheduled immediately afterwards because he knew he wouldn’t be able to concentrate—how much more time was he going to lose to this? But the meeting had been so maddening. Certain team members took over the discussion and as a result no decisions had been made—nothing productive had come out of the full hour. And it wasn’t the first time. The experience left him disheartened and uninterested in working on the project altogether. It ultimately took hours for him to shake off his frustrations and regain the momentum he’d started with that morning.
