Building Leadership Capacity Is Like Building a Muscle. There Are No Shortcuts.
And still, for years, and albeit contraindicative to what I had learned, if it wasn’t high intensity, it wasn’t good enough. It didn't count. That was the rule, mostly unspoken but completely ingrained. Push harder. Go longer. Every day or not good enough. That culture starts young in gyms and in life these days, and I absorbed it completely. What I didn’t fully understand, despite everything I knew, was that I was breaking down more than I was building. It wasn’t because I l
