Episode #37
#232 - The Pressure Paradox: Marilyn Rosa-Green on Why 80% of Leadership Work Is Belief, Not Skill
Send us Fan Mail Featuring Marilyn Rosa-Green, Licensed Professional Counselor and Executive Leadership Coach, Marilyn Rosa Consulting. You do your best work when the heat is on. Then the deadline passes, the crisis clears, the job changes, and you stall. Marilyn Rosa-Green has a name for that, and it is not a character flaw. The Pressure Paradox Your nervous system learned that pressure works. The paper written the night before earned the A. The board deck built Saturday night landed Monday. Twenty years of that and the wiring is set. Take the pressure away and high performers do not exhale, they stall. KNOW: Manufacturing carries the highest turnover of any sector in recent years, 38 to 40 percent. Pressure industries build people who need the pressure. Belief Beats Skill Marilyn was hired to teach leadership skills to a group of manufacturing supervisors. Two sessions in, she saw it. These were people with 5 to 20 years of supervising behind them. They knew how to lead. They had been promoted from within and believed they had something to prove. KNOW: 80 percent of that work turned out to be belief. 20 percent was skill. Someone who believes they are not a good leader will not be one. ⚡ Real Pressure and the Kind You Manufacture Bo spent ten years at the White House, where the standard was zero defects and one wrong speed-dial number ended a career. Healthcare front lines carry that weight too. Most for-profit work does not, so high performers invent stakes to feel the drive. Numb Is Not a Strategy One engineering director shut his emotions off at the door to survive the chaos, then switched them back on at home. It held for a while. Five years later he could not find the switch, his first child was coming, and his wife told him it would not last. BE: One person, not two. Marilyn calls it work-life integration, because it is the same nervous system in both buildings. It is not the pressure. It is what you believe while you are under it. DO This Week Take the Pressure Paradox Assessment. Three to five minutes, and Marilyn answers every submission herself: https://www.marilynrosaconsulting.com/ Batch your inbox. Luke checks his three times a day, 9:30, noon, and 4:30. Nobody waits longer than three hours. Name one belief you hold about your own competence, then go find the evidence that contradicts it. Enjoying the show? Subscribe to The Bo & Luke Show on your favorite podcast platform so you never miss an episode.
