Mental health
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1 day agoTed Turner: What the Tributes Leave Out
Ted Turner had bipolar illness treated with lithium, and manic-depressive traits can support crisis leadership through creativity, resilience, empathy, and realism.
When the world stops making sense and everyone's looking to you for answers, that's when real leadership begins. I learned this in the most extreme of circumstances-first, as a SWAT team Tactical Commander where split-second decisions meant life or death, then as CEO of a major public company where market crises could make or break thousands of our customers' livelihoods.