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The calm leader
Emotional steadiness isn't a personality trait. It's a practice — and it can be learned.
Teams take their emotional cues from the person leading them. When the leader is steady, people think more clearly.
Three daily practices
- Name what you feel before you act on it.
- Take one slow breath before difficult replies.
- End each day by noting one thing that went well.
Calm is contagious. So is panic.
Small, repeated practices build the kind of steadiness people trust.