Sound institutional judgment depends on cognitive conditions that current information environments are engineered to fragment. Attention has become the scarcest resource in most decision-making contexts. Information diet is a governance variable that organizations have not yet learned to manage.
The Institute's Human Performance work treats cognitive conditions as institutional infrastructure. The same way organizations manage capital allocation, talent pipelines, and physical security, they will need to manage cognitive sovereignty: the conditions under which their leaders, analysts, and decision-makers can think clearly under accelerating information pressure.