Christmas flight into a company-wide personality cult about my personal awakening.
But I did change policies.
Executive correspondence was redesigned so no one person could unilaterally suppress private messages involving urgent family matters.
Senior leadership schedules included protected personal time.
More importantly, I began taking mine.
At first employees treated my new boundaries as temporary.
Then they began copying them.
Martin started leaving by six on Thursdays to coach his daughter’s soccer team.
Our chief financial officer stopped apologizing for attending her mother’s medical appointments.
One vice president declined a
