Bad Leadership Sucks!

You see the promises fall flat.

You watch them dodge decisions, fumble delegation and ignore the weight of a frustrated team.

It feels like yelling into a void.

But you still show up. Not for them - for the people beside you. You lift the work with your peers. You raise the bar. You protect the standard. You become the person who cares when no one else does. Even with a ceiling pressed down on your growth, your pride, your pay - you stay. You find meaning in the work itself. Because the work matters.

But ceilings don't stay soft forever. Sometimes they turn to concrete.

The team starts shrinking from bold to bitter. Feedback goes quiet. Energy fades. You feel it in your bones: you're no longer growing, just grinding.

That's when the question hits - how long do I keep pushing when it's clear no one's listening?

As I've said before: “The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.”
That applies to toxic culture. But it also applies to dead-end leadership.

So if your ideas can't rise, if your potential gets capped, if staying means shrinking.

There's only one move left.

Leave. Before they forget what you're capable of. Before you do.