- `Title:` [[( Why It’s So Lonely at the Top]] - `Type:` [[🌲️/(]] - `Tags:` [[Leadership]] - [[Work]] - [[Lonliness]] - [[Coping]] - `Author:` [[@Arthur C Brooks]] - `Notable Authors:` - `Reference:` - [Article](https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/08/how-make-friends-lonely-boss-workaholic/615709/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits) - [[& 2021-01-08 Leadership and Loneliness]] - `Publish Date:` 2020-08-27 - `Reviewed Date:` --- - [[Its lonely at the top]] - leaders tend to be more isolated and lonely at work - the camaraderie and friendship aspect of working relationships is highly valuable to people to the point that many would turn down higher paying positions in favor of working environments where they got along with their coworkers - because leaders feel this overarching sense of loneliness and isolation they feel it adversely impacts their work performance and can potentially lead to burnout. - leaders are no lonely in the physical sense i.e. (meetings galore) rather it is a sense of emotional isolation in the distance between a leader and a subordinate. - Many employees likely feel that they are unable to be unfriendly with the boss out of fear given the obvious power dynamic. This leads to the leader feeling like their working relationships are disingenuous, which they often are. - [[& 2021-01-08 Leadership and Loneliness]] - [[Rulers gain followership by force leaders by inspiration]] - [[Humans inherently reject domineering alpha males in favor of democracy]] - [[Avoidant Attachment]] - [[Insecure Attachment]] - [[Loneliness feels horrible as an evolutionary mechanism to foster strong community ties in order to boost chances of survival]] - [[& 2021-01-14 The psychological costs of owning and managing an SME Linking job stressors occupational loneliness entrepreneurial orientation and burnout]] - [[People desire to be a part of something larger than themselves and so devote themselves to their employer]] - [[& 2021-01-15 A Survey Method for Characterizing Daily Life Experience The Day Reconstruction Method]] - [[The rich may experience more pleasure than the poor but they also require more pleasure to be equally satisfied]] - [[Looking at a collection of individually rated pieces will provide a more accurate opinion of them]] - [[The Day Reconstruction Method]] - [[& 2021-01-15 DOES POWER CORRUPT]] - [[The corrupting influence of power occurs gradually like a frog in a pot of boiling water]] - [[It is easier to influence others if you emotionally distance yourself from them]] - [[& Being biased against friends to appear unbiased]]