Here’s why change is so exhausting, according to neuroscience

Organizations today are running what amounts to a continuous stress experiment on their people. Restructuring, digital transformation, remote and hybrid transitions, supply chain reorganisation and the rapid arrival of AI—change has become the permanent condition of working life. Leaders are puzzled or irritated when people resist, disengage or seem unable to get on board. Looking at the neuroscience of what’s happening in the mind and body offers an explanation strategy decks rarely acknowle...