"I knew how big of a competitive advantage it was that I didn't want others to know what I was doing." The following year, he jumped from barely keeping his tour card to finishing 10th on the Order of Merit. All from learning to breathe properly. The lesson for leaders? Sometimes your missing competitive advantage isn't a complex strategy—it's mastering something you do 20,000 times a day without thinking about it.

As an ambitious person, you may feel that you're carrying impossible weight. Your team depends on you to stay grounded when everything is falling apart. But the very traits that make you an exceptional leader—your drive, your standards, your refusal to quit—are the same traits that will destroy you if you don't learn to lead under pressure differently. This isn't theory. Webb's insights come from standing in spaces most of us will never face: midnight door knocks to tell mothers their child won't be coming home, crisis interventions with loaded weapons involved, leading teams through trauma that would break most people. What he's learned about why leaders fail under pressure and the proven strategy that prevents it isn't just applicable to extreme situations—it's essential for anyone leading teams through high-stakes uncertainty.