A big part of being a CEO, executive or team leader has to do with how well you manage the psychology of the job. Psychological resilience, durability, empathy, clarity are critical if you are going to try to keep important goals in focus and get an organization of humans to do the right things.

Finding even small hits of joy in tasks you otherwise don’t prefer or even dread is widely powerful. It's worth saying that your joy is not anyone else’s responsibility but your own; you need to work at it. And things will never be 100% pure joy, so don’t expect that either.