We celebrate presence, precision and high performance in leadership. But we ignore the very foundation that powers all three: sleep. Why do we still treat sleep and leadership as separate conversations when it may be our greatest advantage? I didn’t fully understand that until one of the busiest seasons of my career left me foggy, depleted and quietly unraveling.
We were rolling out a job leveling system and new applicant tracking system, restructuring a global division and shifting to hybrid work, all during a pandemic. My sleep was fractured, my health declined, my decisions dulled and my confidence wavered.
Then, one weekend, I crashed — hard. I slept 11 hours straight.
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