The Leader I Needed with James (Trig) Rosseau, Sr. · 2026-06-23 · 12 min
You were told to treat everyone the same. Same feedback, same expectations, same approach. That's fairness, right? But what if that sameness is the thing quietly tanking your team? In this episode of The Leader I Need It, James Rosseau breaks down why identical leadership is lazy leadership - and introduces four roles every leader needs to move between: coach, cheerleader, confidant, and counselor. He shares the story of a single email from his CEO that activated his fight or flight and left him reading it over and over for weeks - then unpacks what that moment taught him about how we show up for people. If you've been leading with sameness and calling it fairness, this one is going to challenge everything you thought was working.
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