Senior Leader Plateaus

Every senior leader is operating in three different rooms at once, and each one requires a different version of them.Most senior leaders never make this explicit. They just experience it as being pulled in multiple directions all week. The exhaustion of never quite being fully in any of the rooms. Naming the three rooms and…

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Why ‘I Don’t Know Yet’ Builds More Trust Than a Confident Wrong Answer

There’s a version of executive presence that almost nobody on LinkedIn talks about. It isn’t posture. It isn’t voice. It isn’t the way you take up space in the room. It’s how you handle being uncertain in public. The senior leaders I’ve watched build the most durable authority are the ones who’ve gotten comfortable saying…

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