“Earlier in my career at Korn Ferry, when I was an operating officer and a CFO, I could still be ‘one of the guys,’” Korn Ferry CEO Gary Burnison wrote in Fortune. “People viewed me as a person, not as a function. I was even allowed to have a ‘bad day’ once in a while without worrying about whether my personal mood affected the company. Then I became the CEO. Suddenly, people were reading my mood like tea leaves. I wasn’t just speaking for myself anymore. I represented a position and an institution.”