5 strategies to end overthinking (and improve your leadership)

Perfectionism can make leaders prone to rumination. Here’s what they need to do to stop that.

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Rumination is one of the most overlooked risks to effective leadership. It’s also one of the most common and most contagious. When leaders engage in rumination, it quietly erodes their well-being, judgment, and the psychological climate of their teams.

In psychology, rumination refers to repetitive, unwanted, past-centered, and intrusive negative thinking. Unlike self-reflection, which is purposeful and forward-looking, rumination can become a vicious cycle that loops........

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