Authenticity and capability - combined, visible, and legible to the people who matter - outperforms performance every time. Not performance as in results. Performance as in the managed version of yourself you put on for rooms that make you feel like you have to earn your place in them.
There is a difference between resilience and self-punishment, and a lot of high achievers were taught to treat them as one and the same. Replacing the pursuit of perfection with the pursuit of what is actually possible is not giving up on standards.
The most effective leaders aren't the ones who can do everything. They're the ones who've learnt to resist the pull of doing everything, even when doing it would be faster, easier, and frankly more satisfying.
I sent an email to my team this week as a welcome back from the holiday season, along with some advice and
