Why "pause and reflect" isn't enough — and what leadership renewal actually requires

Popular advice about executive fatigue, however well-intentioned, tends to oversimplify the pressures it's meant to address. Telling a leader to "pause and reflect" is not wrong, exactly. It's just badly insufficie...

It isn't only that the top is lonely. It's that the two things a person needs — somewhere safe to be unguarded, and someone who actually understands the problem — both get scarce at exactly the moment the problems get harder.

The loneliness of leadership gets described a lot, usually as a feeling: ...