Leadership, Learned

Owning a business for the first time comes with a strange kind of loneliness. As an employee, there was always someone above you to make the final call, absorb the risk, or at least share the weight of a bad decision. As the owner, that person is now you — for every decision, every day,…

Stepping into your first senior leadership role — VP, director, a seat at the executive table — feels like it should be a reward for everything you did to get there. Often it feels more like starting over. The instincts that made you excellent at your previous level don’t automatically transfer, and the stakes of…