The Cost of Always Being the Strong One
I’ll say the unpopular thing first. Being ‘the strong one’ is not a compliment. It’s a job description nobody consented to, handed out in childhood, and most senior leaders are still doing unpaid overtime on it forty years later. A few weeks ago I wrote about the Be Perfect driver, one of five psychological drivers ...
You Didn’t Choose To Be The Strong One. It Was Chosen For You.
Two clients. Same week. Different industries, different companies. One a senior leader in a multinational. The other a CEO and Founder of his own tech business. Same problem. One described it as his head being permanently underwater. The other said he’d been crawling to his car at the end of the day, tank completely empty, ...
