High-agency professionals rarely lose leverage because of big, obvious failures; they lose it in the idle gaps where work quietly waits—between meetings, in half-finished docs, inside unreturned messages, or on decisions that no one is clearly owning. This is latency: the hidden time between one step finishing and the next step actually starting. This episode introduces the “Executive Latency Map”: a one-page snapshot of where your work consistently stalls and what to do about it. You’ll learn a three-move model—Trace, Tag, Tighten. First, Trace: review a recent week and list 10–20 items that sat idle longer than they should have—approvals, drafts, handoffs, or AI outputs you never used. Second, Tag: classify each delay as Routing, Ownership, Context, or Courage so patterns emerge. Third, Tighten: design one small rule or AI assist per category to shorten the gap—clear owners, sharper briefs, pre-approved thresholds, or automatic nudges. By the end, you’ll have a practical lens for turning invisible wait time into visible leverage. Clarity is leverage; this is how you apply it to the spaces between your actions.