Greg Stevenson argues that your team absorbs your emotional state before they hear your strategy. A perfectly articulated plan fails if you're anxious, because your team mirrors that anxiety. Interior work on your own emotional patterns isn't self-indulgent—it's essential, because whatever you haven't sorted out gets silently transmitted to your people.
Your people absorb your state long before they hear your strategy. You set the strategy perfectly and still watch your team drift because they are not really following your words. They are copying your state. If you are anxious, the organisation gets anxious. If you are settled under pressure, well, they settle too. Your calm is contagious and so is your panic. That is why the interior work is not self-indulgent. The thing you have not sorted out in yourself, your team is quietly absorbing and passing on. Subscribe to this channel if you lead people who take their cue from you.
