The executive who sabotages a former colleague’s project. The founder who badmouths investors who passed. The manager who withholds opportunities from someone who once crossed them.
Revenge feels righteous in the moment. It promises closure, justice, and even satisfaction.
But orchestrating retribution reveals more about our character than theirs. It shows we’re still carrying their baggage. Still letting them control our actions. They still choose to be defined by what they did to us.
True leaders don’t plot payback. They plot progress.
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