7 Brutal truths about leadership no one tells you at 29

7 Brutal truths about leadership no one tells you at 29
Forbes; by Nirmal Chhabria; 5/29/25
At 29, I was handed my first leadership role. Six months later, I was drowning—my inbox was overflowing with problems, top performers were quitting and morale was plummeting. "What am I doing wrong?" I asked my mentor. "You're trying to be the hero instead of creating heroes," she replied. That conversation began my real leadership education—years of failures that revealed truths I wish I'd known from day one. Here are seven leadership insights that only experience taught me:

1. Leadership Is Service, Not Authority ...
2. Postponed Conversations Become Poisonous Problems ... 
3. Control Suffocates Innovation ...

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