The Leader Who Never Sleeps Is Already Broken

We have quietly normalised a leader who answers messages at midnight and calls it dedication.

But performance research keeps telling us the same thing: recovery is not the opposite of work. It is part of the work. The executives who sustain impact across decades are not the ones who grind the hardest — they are the ones who build deliberate cycles of exertion and renewal.

Sustainable human performance begins the moment we stop treating rest as a reward and start treating it as infrastructure.