Recovery is a leadership skill. What happens after you drop the ball shapes the relationship more than the drop itself — if you handle it right.

Your team isn't forming their picture of you from the big moments. They're forming it from the small ones — and whether you followed through on what you said.

Trust erodes in small, repeated moments. Your team is constantly deciding which version of you is showing up today — and what's safe to bring you because of it.

Leadership doesn't change because of a single insight. It changes through deliberate practice, repeated on the hard days too.