Leadership is actual work. I don’t think anything is harder than being in a leadership position - it’s usually lonely, isolating, exhausting, precarious, and with little support.
I would agree. I just feel that a lot of talk about leadership is feel good talk for wannabe leaders. When I look at my company a lot of people in management don’t lead but they just pass on orders from above and take zero risks. I would call them administrators. But they still go on offsite meetings about leadership.
So what you're saying is if work is already lonely, isolating, exhausting, precarious, with little support, then I might as well go into leadership?
I’m saying you may find it even more so in a leadership position.