Visibility is no substitute for results.

Right now, leadership is sold as a lifestyle. Morning routine, family, balance, the honest admission of one's own imperfection. It reads well, and it works in the algorithm.

Nobody measures a CEO by it.

A company is valued on customers, growth, margin and cash. A team judges its leadership by whether it knows where it is going and whether the plan held twice in a row.

Approachability replaces neither. It is pleasant, but it is not a number.

Ten acquisitions taught me this: teams forgive you bad moods, hard decisions and uncomfortable truths. They do not forgive you if, after two years, they cannot say where the company is heading.

When a company delivers, the CEO can write about anything they want.

When it does not, no post in the world replaces the missing result.