
Building Emotional Resilience: A Key Leadership Skill for 2026
Lynda Gratton emphasizes the importance of calm as a critical leadership capability, highlighting that it can be inherited, innate, or learned through experience. She identifies three pathways to calm—heritage, personality, and experience—and argues that cultivating calm enhances endurance, clarity, and influence in high-pressure work environments. The article advocates for deliberate practices to strengthen calm, which is essential for sustainable and effective leadership in modern workplaces.
