Greg Stevenson argues that your team mirrors your emotional state, not your strategy. If you walk in tight and anxious, the room tightens. Calmness spreads the same way. Who you are in the moment matters more than what's on the slide.
Your team copies your state, not your strategy. You can have the clearest plan in the world. It does not matter. What they actually absorb is how you are being. If you walk in tight and anxious, the whole room tightens, no matter what you say. If you walk in, though, calm under real pressure, they steady too. Your calm is the most contagious thing in the building. But on the other side, so is your panic. Leadership is not the words on the slide. It is the state you bring into the room. So before the next hard meeting, the real question is not what will I say? It is who am I being when I walk in?
