Chad SilversteinBuilt To Lead · Entrepreneur , Advisor, & Thought Leader

The Leadership Mistake No One Talks About

Name: The Leadership Mistake No One Talks About
Uploaded: 2025-06-11T11:01:17+00:00
Duration: 1 min 5 s
Channel: Chad Silverstein
Description: Chad Silverstein says high-performing leaders often feel profound loneliness because their drive to be exceptional isolates them. As organizations grow…

11 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Chad Silverstein says high-performing leaders often feel profound loneliness because their drive to be exceptional isolates them. As organizations grow, this isolation intensifies. He urges leaders to set aside pride, reach out to coaches and trusted people, and ask for help to sustain their culture and effectiveness.

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So if you decide that you don't want to be normal and you're a high performer, then you're definitely going to find many times in your life where you're going to feel very alone by yourself. It's normal and it sucks, and it's just part of the gig of leading anything. And if you're leading anything and you're successful at it, then it should grow. And that means if you're growing your culture, your people, your business, then you're going to attract even more people. And that's typically what happens— mass attracts mass. So you have to be really careful that, uh, You don't go dark when things are tough and that you lean on your coaches, your builders, your friends, your family. And just because you may feel in the moment that you're alone and it feels like you're on this island by yourself, you know, most of the time you have more people that will have your back than you think. You just have to make sure you reach out and ask for help. And a lot of times leaders have a little bit too much pride to do that. So you got to let down your ego and you got to be human, and then you have to connect with other humans and make sure they understand where you're at and what you might need help with.