The Cost of Being the Adult in the Room: On hard decisions, competing values, and the price of protecting what matters.
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Regional towns are often microcosms of cities, just compressed. Everything is closer. Everything is louder. And every decision feels more personal.
In my latest essay, I explore what leadership actually looks like inside that reality. From sporting clubs to community organisations to local institutions, the same pressures play out, identity, expectation, fear, belonging, and the quiet weight of decisions that don’t have perfect outcomes.
Because leadership is rarely about winning arguments or finding perfect answers.More often, it’s about making tough calls that keep the system stable, and ensuring what matters is still standing when the pressure passes.
There is a cost to being the adult in the room.This essay explores what that cost really looks like, and why it so often goes unseen.
TK
