Becoming a mentally healthy leader

Imagine you’re a manager in a meeting where the SVP shares bad news: The company is laying off 8,000 employees over the next two months. Your team will be affected. That’s all they can tell you. They’ll be back with an update in a few weeks. The room shifts. People tense up, fidget, ask hostile questions, tear up, go quiet. Everything feels volatile. You know there are a lot of difficult conversations ahead, and morale will suck. But you’re okay. You notice your breath...