If you don't deal with things, they will have a way of dealing with you.
Brave leaders are never silent around hard things. Their job is to excavate the unsaid.
-- Brené Brown, The Call To Courage
It seems to me that when leaders don't move into hard things, they are most likely protecting something and, more often than not, it is themselves. They're afraid of losing something, rather than believing that something can be gained, even if they don't know exactly what that is.
Nothing makes this more clear than when you are on the receiving end of this.
