In 1981, "Snorkeling", a convoluted story about an executive who beats fatigue by employing drones to sleep on his behalf, was published in the New Yorker.
Other important variables could also serve as important predictors (and potential mediators) in our model (e.g., pain, fatigue, executive functioning, and processing speed).
Already, a swing in public sentiment has been pounced on by network executives who sense Yankee fatigue.
The slump in the Lloyds share price means it is one of the FTSE 100's worst performing shares in the past 12 months, which have seen it take a £3.2bn provision for misselling payment protection insurance and suffered the absence of its chief executive António Horta-Osório to fatigue.
"It's a welcome piece of news," says Kimberly Kenney, executive director of the Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome Association of America, a patient group that helped expose the diversion of CFS money.
On the ground in Japan, executives were battling mental and physical fatigue.
"If you just back off and don't push them to the point of fatigue," said Brad Kullman, a Reds executive, "you can bring them back a day earlier".
More recently, it has been used to test executive function in children and adolescents with fatigue [ 8- 10].
"There's about 50 ads over the course of the Super Bowl, and ad fatigue sets in," said Randall Beard, the executive vice president of IAG.
Long hours of signing pink slips or composing company directives can fatigue even the most hammer-fisted executive.
Coping with the demands of pain diminishes self-regulatory capacity and causes self-regulatory fatigue, which then leads to deteriorated executive task performance.
