Can you master the inner game of leadership?
Can you master the inner game of leadership? Conflicting demands and challenges must be managed. Here’s how. Illustration by Malte Mueller Niki Leondakis, a veteran hotel-industry CEO, started managing people in college when she was promoted from waiter to shift supervisor at a restaurant called the Hungry U near the University of Massachusetts. She took the job seriously, but in that role, as well as in her first management job out of college, she made a mistake common to many young leaders: She was too friendly with the people she was managing and had to learn the appropriate boundaries...