ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Fast responses, quick decisions, and lots of action can look like decisive leadership. But sometimes what looks like urgency is actually stress with a lanyard. In this episode of Leadruption, Emma Last explores Cortisolship, what happens when a leader’s stress quietly becomes everybody else’s operating system.
In this episode, we explore:
- What Cortisolship is, and how stress can easily be mistaken for urgency, commitment or decisiveness.
- The difference between something genuinely being urgent and something simply making us feel urgent.
- What happens when one uncomfortable email causes priorities to change, meetings to be cancelled, and everybody else to start firefighting.
- Why calm leadership isn’t about never feeling stressed, but about not automatically passing that stress on to everybody around you.
- Two questions to consider: When you feel pressure, do you create clarity for other people, or do you accidentally create more pressure? And is this genuinely urgent, or has it just made you feel urgent?
Quick action and reactive action aren’t the same thing.
Sometimes the strongest leadership move isn’t doing something immediately. It’s waiting long enough to work out what actually needs doing.
Preferably before cancelling three meetings.
And definitely before asking for the spreadsheet.
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