Leadership presence is often mistaken for stamina - the ability to keep going, keep performing, keep showing up no matter the cost. In this episode of The Box of Keys, I go back to the year I first stepped into an executive role, when I mistook constant motion for momentum and told myself that exhaustion was simply the price of being in the game. My team noticed what I couldn't see: I was physically in the room, but no longer fully there, and my conversations had turned transactional. You'll hear the advice a Chairman gave me the day I finally stepped back, and why it took eighteen months to feel on top of my game again. A short reflection on why presence can't be sustained without recovery, and why it sometimes takes enforced downtime to see what we needed all along.
Leadership presence is often mistaken for stamina - the ability to keep going, keep performing, keep showing up no matter the cost.
In this episode of The Box of Keys, I go back to the year I first stepped into an executive role, when I mistook constant motion for momentum and told myself that exhaustion was simply the price of being in the game. My team noticed what I couldn't see: I was physically in the room, but no longer fully there, and my conversations had turned transactional.
You'll hear the advice a Chairman gave me the day I finally stepped back, and why it took eighteen months to feel on top of my game again. A short reflection on why presence can't be sustained without recovery, and why it sometimes takes enforced downtime to see what we needed all along.