In Ancient Greek, the word pharmakon carries a hauntingly beautiful paradox: it means both poison and remedy.

In the modern workplace, leadership operates exactly the same way.

The same drive that builds a company can, in a different dosage, become the ego that destroys it. The same directness that Clarifies goals can become the Toxicity that silences a team. Leadership is never neutral—it is always a substance being administered to an organization. It is either healing the culture or poisoning it.