The loneliness senior leaders stop naming out loud


There is a kind of loneliness that shows up at the top of organizations that very few leaders ever name, partly because the people around them would not believe it, and partly because naming it feels like a complaint that comes with no clean place to put it. The leader has a partner, a family, peers in other companies, a team that respects them, and a calendar packed with conversations. From the outside, the isolation looks structurally impossible. From the inside, the loneliness is so...