When you lead an organization, there are plenty of priorities competing for your time and energy. There are programs to lead, feedback to give, hiring and recruiting to move along, a vision to set, and team culture to cultivate. You can never do it all as well as you’d like. You try to balance and delegate, make room for failure, inspire then back off, and generally keep things moving along.

Sometimes tensions and anxiety is high. Sometimes it is particularly busy. Sometimes things are uncertain. Sometimes money or hours are particularly tight. Sometimes the world around you legitimizes hateful rhetoric…