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Lonely at the Top: Why Good Leaders Must Learn to Manage Loneliness Leaders spend their days surrounded by people, so the last thing they might expect is to feel alone. And yet for many CEOs, founders, and other leaders, being the person solely responsible for a company’s ultimate fate and direction, as well as the livelihood of its many employees can lead to feelings of true isolation and profound loneliness. What determines someone’s loneliness is not the objective quantity of their relationships nor the extent to which they seem well liked or respected, but rather whether they perceive themselves to be emotionally isolated. As such, it is not a matter of how many people they have around them. Leaders, especially those at the top and those who are called upon to make crucial and often brutal decisions that impact the lives of many people, can easily feel as though they have no true peers, because sometimes they do not. Leaders spend their days surrounded by people, so the last thing they might expect is to feel alone. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Guy Winch