When Leadership Does Not Feel Like Leadership
Have you ever worked for someone who made you question your own confidence?
Gallup tells us only 1 in 10 people naturally possess the talent to lead others. Most organizations do not know this. But employees do.
If you have ever felt unseen, unsupported, or quietly dismissed by someone in a leadership role, you know the emotional weight of working for someone who was not equipped to lead humans. It is a lonely kind of confusion — wondering why you are shrinking in a place you once thrived.
You are not imagining it. You were feeling the gap between a title and true leadership.
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What did it feel like the first time you realized your leader was not actually leading?
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