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The Attention Economy’s Challenge: How Business Schools Must Address the Cognitive Crisis

The rise of screens, social media, and AI tools is reshaping how students engage with learning, often replacing sustained intellectual effort with convenience and shortcuts. Business schools are facing a growing cognitive crisis that threatens students’ attention, critical thinking, and intellectual autonomy. Addressing this challenge requires deliberate action: redesigning learning environments, integrating attention management into curricula, rethinking assessment methods, fostering meaningful academic communities, and leading informed conversations about AI literacy. This is not merely an educational issue but a leadership imperative. Without these cognitive capacities, future organisations risk a diminishing pool of leaders capable of navigating complex and global challenges. ….[READ]