Stress Eating Oreos and Leadership
I was listening to a podcast today about emotional eating.
This is something I deal with. I tend to eat mindlessly right after the kids get home from school.
This is a stressful time of day for many parents. There’s A LOT going on. I’d describe it as a zombie apocalypse erupting in a circus during a hurricane.
Oreos are eaten.
I digress.
This concept of emotional eating spilled over into my business mind.
What’s the leadership version of stress eating??
What coping behaviors do we use when stressed at work?
· Micromanaging
· Avoidance
· Risk taking
Of course there’s a leadership equivalent. We bring the same brain that sends us into the **second row** of Oreos to work every day!!!
We don’t have a magical shield separating our 2 worlds.
We get triggered.
We cope with behaviors that probably aren’t moving the ball forward.