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— likeability and collaboration
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— trust and loyalty
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— credibility and decision-making
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Self-Advocacy
Making Your Value Visible
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The advice is always the same, make yourself more visible, and it is not wrong. It also ignores the reason you have not done it, which is that talking about your own expertise feels like the wrong kind of behaviour.
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Inner Dialogue
Imposter syndrome does not usually come from a lack of ability. It comes from believing the first thought that arrives under pressure. That thought can be caught and turned, in the moment, before it runs you.
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Gratitude
Leadership loneliness often has less to do with the people around you than with where your attention is trained. Your whole job is to scan for what is still broken, and a mind kept there long enough starts to feel like everything is.
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Relationship Building
Most leaders try to connect through an open-door policy. It rarely works, because it puts the effort to connect with the other person, and they are not yet comfortable enough to take it. The move that actually opens a relationship is smaller, and it happens in the first thirty seconds of a conversation.