Most leaders won’t say this out loud: we are leading while bleeding.
We walk into boardrooms and log into Zooms with wounds nobody sees.
The performance is polished. The language is strategic. The image is intact.
But behind the title, many of us are exhausted, doubting, or quietly unraveling.
And the system rewards the mask—until the mask kills us.
That’s the truth corporate leadership doesn’t want you to admit. Because once you do, you stop performing, and you start demanding something deeper.
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