Nietzsche's concept of 'will to power' is often misread as domination — but in his notebooks he describes it more precisely as the drive to *overcome resistance*, including resistance within oneself. For leaders, this reframes the Monday challenge: the question isn't how to control others, but whether you have the honest self-mastery to act from your own values when the easier path is to defer, please, or perform confidence you don't feel. Nietzsche called the person who achieves this the *Übermensch* not because they overpower others, but because they stop outsourcing their standards to the crowd.

When you made your last significant decision under pressure, were you leading from your own considered values — or were you primarily managing how others would perceive you?

Drawing from German Idealism / Nietzschean Philosophy — Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1883; The Will to Power, notebooks compiled 1901)