Sachin Jain, President and CEO, Board Director at SCAN Health Plan, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“When should conduct in your personal life affect your professional life?
Some argue it shouldn’t at all.
That personal and professional spheres are separate domains, governed by different rules.
Others believe it should matter—but only at certain levels of leadership, visibility, or power.
And then there are those who believe it all matters.
Always.
That character isn’t situational—and that how you live is inseparable from how you lead.
Recent public examples have brought this question back into sharp focus:
The resignation of Andy Byron, CEO of Astronomer; ongoing debates around tech leaders like Elon Musk; and prior reckonings involving founders and CEOs whose off-the-job behavior reshaped how their organizations were perceived.
None of these cases are simple.
Context matters.
Power matters.
Harm matters.
So does proportionality.
I’m less interested in abstract rules than lived experience.
When have you seen this line matter and when has drawing it been genuinely hard?”
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