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State Before Strategy: Why You Can’t Fake Real Presence
Kamini Wood breaks down the concept of "leadership presence," arguing that typical outer-focused behaviors—like striking a power pose, altering vocal tone, or maintaining calculated eye contact—fail under pressure if they are merely installed as external software. Kamini asserts that true presence is not a performance but a direct reflection of the nervous system's state, which "leaks" our internal reality to everyone in the room. When a leader is dysregulated, unconscious survival patterns manifest physically as over-explaining, fidgeting, over-softening feedback, or over-apologizing. By…
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