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Lonely At The Top?

  • Writer: Peter McLean
    Peter McLean
  • Oct 20
  • 1 min read

The "lonely at the top" feeling great leaders are supposed to have? Entirely self-inflicted.


If you're leading people, you actually have no excuse to be lonely, because you should be sharing responsibility, vision, strategy, insight, needs, etc. And one thing you should always be doing is finding that sounding board of one or more trusted advisors with whom you can share and bounce ideas, perspectives, challenges, queries, hopes, dreams, road blocks and frustrations.


Unfortunately, in their drive to be "the smartest in the room", leaders and high-potentials cut off the rich oxygen they need from other sources. It's a trap. If you're always the smartest in the room or the most accomplished or have the most character and so on, then you just need to open up and get out more. Trust me, I've worked with some of the smartest in the world and they had massive blind spots that caused them problems and that sense of "loneliness" that was obviated when we started to open up the way they worked and led.


Instead of self-isolating, draw on your people to "Aim Higher Together" as I say it in my "Lead With CLARITY™" model. When you stand on each other's shoulders, you can reach higher than you ever dreamed by yourself.


Peter McLean

Creator of "Lead With CLARITY™"

Speaker, Consultant, Coach


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