Let me start with something uncomfortable: the higher you climb, the worse your information gets. Not because people lie to you—though some do—but because the system around you slowly stops telling the truth. Your team filters bad news. Your board speaks in...

Sixty percent of CEOs report feeling isolated in their role. When I read that statistic, my first thought was: the other forty percent aren’t being honest. I’ve worked with hundreds of senior executives, and loneliness is not the exception—it’s the architecture of the...