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Walking-Dead Leadership: Why Most Leaders Stall at 25—and How to Wake Up

The second half of your career isn’t about proving yourself—it’s about becoming yourself.

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Ryan Hanley
Aug 31, 2025
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Benjamin Franklin didn’t mess around...

“Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.”

Translation: most people give up.

They become walking-dead leaders.

Alive on the outside. Hollow on the inside.

Still “leading,” but dragging along the same tired ideas and strategies.

Carl Jung saw this play out in his patients.

He called it individuation—the lifelong…

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