Leaders Feel Their Agency Eroding—and They’re Starting to Withdraw

Conceptual debt for the withdrawal half of the chapter’s leadership observation. The article describes leaders losing agency and withdrawing from decision-making and the emotional labour of leadership under prolonged volatility. It does not support the separate observation that some leaders pull every decision into their own hands and become bottlenecks.

Wedell-Wedellsborg, Merete. 'Leaders Feel Their Agency Eroding—and They’re Starting to Withdraw.' Harvard Business Review, 23 March 2026. (Conceptual debt: leaders withdrawing from decision-making under prolonged uncertainty.)