Robert Johnson (1911-1938): Unmasked Leadership, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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What burns is the costume. What rises is you.

Somewhere on the way up, most leaders learned that the job required a performance. Composure when you are uncertain. Optimism when you are worried. Certainty when you do not know. The performance works. It gets you promoted. And then one day you find you cannot take it off.

Robert Johnson calls these masks, and he has seen nine of them in nearly every leader he has ever worked with: the Stoic, the Cheerleader, the Fortress, the Diplomat, the Hero, the Expert, the Chameleon, the Title, and the Martyr. You will probably recognize at least one.

Every leader is running two operations at once: the work, and the performance of being the person who can handle the work. For most of a career, the second one is invisible-and it is the one that exhausts you.

Unmasked Leadership is not a vulnerability manifesto and not a personality test. It is a diagnostic and a method. A reflective self-assessment helps you see which mask you are wearing. What follows shows you what it is costing you, what it is protecting, and how to set it down without losing the authority you built while wearing it.

Presence. Truth. Trust. In that order, because they only work in that order.

With a foreword by Christopher Basile.