When did you last check your inner compass?

When the figurehead is outrageous enough, deeper dysfunction disappears from view.

There’s a way of speaking about leadership that feels familiar. It’s structured, well-defined, often persuasive. It talks about vision, strategy, performance, results. It offers models and frameworks, each one promising clarity in a world that can feel uncertain and demanding. None of that is wrong and in many situations, it’s necessary. And yet, if you’ve spent any time in leadership, particularly with responsibility for real people rather than abstract outcomes, you may hav