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Fri 6/19 — Quiet confidence is not the same as restored confidence
The senior leaders I work with rarely have a competence problem. What they have is a recovery problem. Years of working inside high-conflict environments will leave even strong leaders running on accumulated performance long after the environment is gone. They still hit their numbers. They still close the room. The work shows up. But something underneath has not been restored, and they can usually feel it before anyone else can. There is a real difference between confidence you are performing and confidence you actually hold. From the outside, the two can look the same for a long time. One eventually runs out. The other does not. That is what Executive Authority Recovery is for, and where the RECLAIM™ Leadership Framework begins.
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