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Mon 8/24 — Why does this keep happening to me?

Why does this keep happening to me? It is one of the harder questions a successful leader ever asks. Different organization. Different title. Different people. And somehow the same dynamic finds them again. The dominating personality. The environment that slowly destabilizes their footing. The role that starts asking them to shrink. It is tempting to read this as bad luck, or to quietly wonder whether the problem is you. It is usually neither. When a capable leader keeps landing in the same kind of high-conflict dynamic, it is not because they attract it. It is because the pattern they built to survive an earlier version of it is still running, and it makes those environments feel familiar enough to tolerate far longer than they should. The good news inside that is significant. If the pattern comes from the inside, it is also something you can change. You are not at the mercy of the next difficult boss or the next destabilizing system. That is the whole premise of the RECLAIM™ Leadership Framework. Name the pattern, understand what it was protecting, and rebuild a leader's authority on ground the next environment cannot quietly erode. If the same dynamic has found you in more than one place, that is worth paying attention to. What did those situations have in common?