Entrepreneur Op-Ed: Workplace Isolation Shapes Leadership Habits, Author Says
A contributor to Entrepreneur describes how being 'the only one' in leadership settings—based on gender, race or background—leads professionals to overprepare, overwork and second-guess themselves. Drawing on her own experience as one of two Black women in a 200-person finance division, she argues these coping behaviors can calcify into a leadership style rooted in survival rather than strategy.