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In focus/managing stress-Surviving the pressure cooker

✍ Scribed by Bal, Vidula; Campbell, Michael; McDowell-Larsen, Sharon

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2008
Weight
91 KB
Volume
28
Category
Article
ISSN
1093-6092

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✦ Synopsis

As a new parent, you are feeling overwhelmed by the competing demands of your job as a sales director and your new role of father. It seems as though you can never do enough.

• Your work relationships with your peers are so competitive and filled with conflict that you must always remain vigilant about whom you talk to and what you say. You can never relax and be yourself. If any of these examples resonate with you (or if you can recall others like them), you are experiencing the stress of leadership.

STRESS FACTORS

A number of factors inherent to leadership roles in general contribute to leadership stress.

Ambiguity. By definition, leadership requires you to be out in front (of people, trends, crises, change, and other events). Rarely is there a predefined path that you can follow. There may not be readily available answers to acute problems. Leaders often must make critical decisions based on limited information, and just as often, customers, clients, the public, shareholders, and other stakeholders hold leaders accountable for those decisions. Leaders live in the land of ambiguityfacing the unknown, hoping for the best, and planning for the worst.

Lack of control. Given the trend toward flatter organizations, the rise of geographically dispersed teams, and the sheer force of globalization, many leaders feel they do not have

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