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fromHarvard Business Review
1 day ago

Why Effective Leaders Get Branded as Problems

Her CEO admired her decisiveness, respected her clarity, and valued her confidence. At the same time, he began receiving complaints, which he relayed to Anna quickly. A pattern was clear: 'She moves too fast.' 'She makes decisions before the rest of us are ready.' 'We're always in catch-up mode.'
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fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

Psychology says the reason boomers who can dish it but can't take it become more fragile with age rather than less isn't that they've grown weaker - it's that every decade of unchallenged authority makes the first real challenge feel not like a correction but like a collapse, and the response to collapse is never proportionate to the thing that caused it - Silicon Canals

Long-term authority positions create isolation from honest feedback, causing leaders to become brittle and unable to handle challenges to their decisions.
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