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Your Partner is Your "Soft Place to Land" (A Critical Leadership Lesson)

13 Dec 2025 · 0 min

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Chris Collins argues that how you treat your partner directly shapes your leadership. Leaders who complain about their spouses struggle to get advisors engaged in walk-arounds, suggesting the same patterns that damage marriages undermine your ability to lead.

In a healthy relationship, that person is always the soft place to land when you walk in the door. You remember when you told me that? Oh, yeah. That's part of my such great advice. It turns out that those people that come in here and they're usually complaining about their spouses and everything like that are the same people that can't get their advisors to do walk arounds. It's the same thing. It is. It's all connected. It's all connected.