It’s been dubbed the Isolation Tax.
Toronto’s Jamie Mason Cohen worked backstage at Saturday Night Live for a few years so he knows high stress and top-notch performance first hand. He now devotes his energy to helping business leaders improve their game. And one observation he has made is: even with strong teams around them, leaders feel lonely.
He calls it the Isolation Tax, a cost organizations pay through lower productivity.
Often, a leader will say: I’ll do it myself because it is easier or quicker than teaching others to undertake the assignment which leads to the best and brightest moving on to new opportunities because they see no path for advancement.
Organizations suffering from this problem may be working at 70-percent of their potential, not because of a lack of talent but because judgement is never transferred, only directed.
To see it in action, imagine a manager who is great presenter but never learned to be a mentor… probably because they were never mentored themselves.
