There are seasons when leadership starts to feel like carrying everything that lands in your path. That feeling is not proof you are a strong leader. It is a signal you have collapsed two acts into one. After a recent keynote, a journalist asked me what care, but don't carry looks like in real, everyday leadership. The question landed harder than the talk had. I sit with one question now. From Alfred Adler, by way of Kishimi and Koga. The separation of tasks. Whose task is this? Mine, or theirs? It has been the start of unlearning forty years of what I thought I was supposed to do. A framework for putting things down without dropping people. For caring deeply without carrying what was never yours. The kind of leadership I want my team to remember…

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