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Hi. I'm Sabina Nawaz.
I work with CEOs across
the globe on how to manage
the intersection of
pressure and power.
I'm also a keynote speaker,
offer leadership classes,
and write for The
Wall Street Journal,
Harvard Business Review
and Forbes, to name a few,
and I'm the author
of You're the Boss:
Become the Manager You Want
to Be and Others Need,
by Simon & Schuster.
In this session,
we'll explore how to make
yourself pressure-proof
by uncovering the number
one pressure pitfall
that people fall into,
that I discovered as I was
researching this book.
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People are under
tremendous pressure
wherever you look:
at work, at home,
because of politics,
and because of things
happening around the globe.
Here's the thing, it is
not power that corrupts.
It's pressure that corrupts.
Here's how pressure corrupts.
We raise our voice.
We provide harsher
criticism than necessary.
We don't empathize.
Rushing to meet
deadlines, we might say,
"I don't have time to provide
detailed explanations,
let alone repeat them."
This pressure and
our reaction to it
morphs our best intentions
into harsh impact,
into destructive habits.
When managers act
out under pressure,
employees play video games
or, as research shows,
even deliberately
sabotage results,
but pressure can also be good.
Diamonds are made from coal
under pressure, after all.
It's where we recognize the
creativity, brilliance,
and resourcefulness that we
didn't even know we have.
It's an invitation to grow.
Pressure doesn't
have to define you,
it can refine you.
To do that, you've got to
manage pressure mindfully.
You have to recognize what
pressure pitfalls you fall into
and how to navigate those
more intentionally.
