Leading Through Pressure Without Losing Your People burnout conflict firefighting food leadership pressure resistance Sep 09, 2025

The moments you’re most under pressure are the moments your team and those around you remember most.

Not the calm days. Not the wins.
But the heat. The urgency. The curveballs.
That’s when leadership patterns get revealed—or rewritten.

And in food and manufacturing environments, pressure isn’t the exception. It’s the rhythm.

When firefighting becomes your leadership style

One of our clients—an operations leader in a national food brand—described their team dynamic like this:

“We’re so used to...

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