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               Your team is watching how you handle stress. Here's what they see
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               Leadership has never been a low-pressure job, but something has shifted. The Brunswick Group's Leadership Stress Index now puts executive stress above even the peaks of the COVID-19 pandemic, when mass layoffs and supply chain collapses fractured many organizations. That the present moment exceeds it says something about how much the environment has changed, and how little relief has followed.
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               The consequences extend beyond the executive suite. Sustained stress narrows 
cognitive perspective. It pushes leaders from strategic planning into reactive thinking. Misjudgments are more likely to happen, compounding the pressure on the people who work for them. Organizational performance suffers. Employee well-being follows.
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               What stress does to the brain isn't only psychological. Researchers Sandy Dickerson and Margaret Kemeny identified the biological dimension in foundational work that showed potent stressors — particularly those involving public scrutiny
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               Scholars and practitioners have spent years trying to understand how leaders respond when pressure intensifies and uncertainty rises. Drawing on Richard Lazarus and Susan Folkman's research on how people appraise 
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               A "lighthouse" leader is what researchers describe as someone who projects stability while surrounded by turbulence. Studies of high-reliability organizations, including air traffic control units and hospital emergency 
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               No pattern is universally right. A leader who projects unwavering calm can read as aloof, slow, or detached, particularly when a crisis drags on and urgency is genuinely warranted. The typology offers a map, not a verdict.
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               There's also a distinction worth preserving between types of stress. Short, acute pressure can sharpen performance. A deadline or high-stakes presentation injects a useful sense of urgency that counteracts the grinding and chronic pressure that accumulates across months of organizational volatility. The destructive kind is the sustained kind, and the two require different responses.
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