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Zach Brandon and Colin Jonov discuss the dual nature of leadership traits and their impact on performance and values.

Send us Fan Mail Performance and Leadership advisor, Zach Brandon, and I dig into why the traits that drive excellence can also sabotage it when we overuse them. We trade stories and mental models that help leaders, coaches, and athletes stay adaptable, serve others well, and keep their values intact when ambition and adversity collide. • the double-edged nature of performance virtues like intensity, obsession, and discipline • overused strengths becoming limitations, including communi...

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