When Leaders Get Imposter Syndrome

Rallying the troops when you feel exhausted and stressed is a recipe for self doubt. Here’s how to fight it.

Deborah Gruenfeld
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5 min readAug 7, 2020

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When Prince Albert, the second son of King George V, was called on unexpectedly to take over the throne after his brother’s abrupt abdication, no one told him to “just be yourself.” He had a severe stutter, and it was the…

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Deborah Gruenfeld
Marker
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Social psychologist, Joseph McDonald Professor at Stanford GSB, author of Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe (Crown Publishing Group).