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The impostor syndrome is a phenomenon where highly successful people secretly fear they’re a fraud among their peers, not really qualified to be doing what they do. It’s especially common for businesswomen, in corporations and entrepreneurships alike. Compensation strategies – like projecting an invulnerable façade of power and togetherness – only bandage the underlying problem, and hinder one’s ability to connect and relate to others.
In this episode of herBusiness, Harold Hillman, the Managing Director of the Sigmoid Curve Consulting Group and author of The Impostor Syndrome: Becoming an Authentic Leader, talks about the thought patterns behind impostor syndrome, and advice on how to work through it to become more open, real, and connected to others.
Listen to this episode to hear more about:
- Frames of thinking
- Openness in leadership
- Authenticity in the workplace
- Accepting uncertainty and ambiguity
- Vulnerability and connecting to others