About this episode
One belief separated him.Usman Shuga, CEO of Bluebeam, learned it long before the boardroom...setting records and representing the USA national cricket team in high-stakes international matches.Talking with him made me think about how differently pressure shows up across seasons of life.In sports, pressure is loud and public.In leadership, it’s less glamorous… and even heavier.Board expectations. Team decisions. Moments where everyone is watching.For most of my career, I thought confidence was what really carried leaders through those moments.Usman reframed it for me.... pressure is a privilege.It's the PROOF that what you’re doing actually matters.That belief wasn’t built in a classroom.It was forged in a hostile away game in Nepal with 20,000 fans cheering against him and everything on the line.And it made me reflect on something in my own leadership journey (the moments I’ve felt the most pressure were usually the moments that mattered most too).Years later, the arena changed for him but that belief didn’t. So, Leadership isn’t about avoiding pressure. It’s about learning how to interpret it differently than everyone else.Is pressure the cost of leadership — or the reward?-----Connect with the Host, #1 bestselling author Ben FanningSpeaking and Training inquiresSubscribe to my Youtube channelLinkedInInstagramTwitter
