CHAPTER FIVE
GET USED TO LONELY
Being an entrepreneur or founder/CEO can be described as many things: exciting, exhilarating, rewarding, difficult, stressful, and challenging. “Lonely” is probably the last word that comes to mind, unless you’ve sat in the chair before. But leadership definitely can be isolating, which may surprise you and even whup you pretty good. It may be a cliché to say that it’s lonely at the top, but this is a real feeling, and it affects all leaders to some extent, at some point, in good times and in bad.
As Harvard Business Review’s first CEO Snapshot Survey noted, “Often dismissed and rarely discussed, many CEOs are plagued by feelings of isolation once they take on the top job.”1
Those feelings come in many forms: ...
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