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Petar Dimov's avatar

A good reminder that senior leadership isn’t about absorbing friction

Amanda Breckenridge's avatar

Yes, Petar! That’s a great way to frame it.

slow revolt's avatar

Really liking the content and format, Amanda!

Amanda Breckenridge's avatar

Thank you! I'm glad to hear it.

Jami Zakem's avatar

Amanda, I love this. The incident → pattern shift is so real.

It connects to something I teach in my Manager Essentials Workshops - patterns are hard to see because they take time (and a little emotional distance) to surface. So I keep what I call a “sanity doc” - literally a private Google Sheet with two columns: Date and Notes. That’s it.

It gets the thoughts out of my head (sanity) and, over time, the pattern reveals itself (more sanity).

This article is so good.