As you move up in leadership, your peer group shrinks. A staff pharmacist has colleagues across the hospital. A pharmacy manager's peers are other managers at different hospitals. A director talks to just a handful of senior leaders. The loneliness isn't about being alone, it's about who you can actually relate to.
Perspective of leadership is lonely. The reality of it is that is a kind of a true statement. So I think it's fair for your audience to. For me to highlight that it is a little. But what it is, it's not that it's lonely because you don't have people. It's that the individuals whose company you keep now are a little different. Because if you work for an organization, you know, most organizations have fraternizing, you know, type of clauses, or you can't, you know, hang out with your team after hours or stuff like that. And it does become a little lonely because as you ascend upwards within an organization, your peer group gets smaller. You know, if we were to think about, I mean, I know I'm coming back to health care, but just to maybe illustrate it, when I'm a pharmacist, I have a lot of colleagues, you know, we have a lot of pharmacists that might work within the hospital that I'm in. We may have, you know, what, 17 of them that work to cover all the shifts. But if you become the pharmacy manager, you might, you know, your peer group is now not at the hospital anymore. It's at the other hospital down the street. Right. If you go further up and you're now a director, right. It becomes smaller and just the individuals that you can connect with.
