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A powerful leader I know chose to take a back seat for a few weeks and watched things stop working. I wonder if what he was seeing was the absence of himself. What it means to follow like a leader, and to be yourself all the time.

Confidence is the leadership trait we talk about most and misunderstand most. It is not volume, dominance or performance. It is a state people feel before you speak, and it shows up most clearly in what you stop doing.

Some leaders change the tone of a meeting before they say a word. That is magnetism, not charisma. How four inner pillars show up for a team as feedback, accountability, support and encouragement, and why that container drives performance.