The Manager’s Mind is a 10-minute reset for leading with clarity and confidence. Built for new managers and rising leaders, each episode explores feedback, decision-making, and leadership identity.

You're Too Sensitive
Feedback & Interpretation Catherine Insler Feedback & Interpretation Catherine Insler

You're Too Sensitive

When someone tells you you’re “too sensitive,” they’re not assessing your leadership—they’re misreading your intelligence. You’re tracking emotional data others don’t value, and that mismatch gets labeled as fragility instead of insight. This post reframes the feedback, names the real pattern beneath it, and shows you how to lead without abandoning the part of you that actually sees what’s happening.

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Stop reacting to pressure. Start mapping your next move

The Industrial Rut

Most management advice is a legacy of 1920s factory logic. It asks you to be more efficient while you are already drowning in coordination debt. Friction is not a personal failure; it is the sound of an old system hitting a wall.

The Cartography Shift

We do not "fix" managers; we redraw the map. Use the library of 70+ tactical tools to translate workplace pressure into navigable signals. Find the specific route for your current terrain in The Map Makers Room.

The Steady Move

Stop managing by accident. Every episode and toolkit is a reset designed to help you lead from your inherent orientation rather than your current urgency. Restore your rhythm so you can restore the team..