Most leadership advice treats a leader as one coherent person with skills to sharpen. In practice, the micromanaging, the conflict avoidance, the compulsive overdelivering rarely come from a single source, they come from specific internal parts, each formed for a reason that made sense once. Ego-state therapy and leadership intersect exactly here. Here are the three parts that show up most often in leadership work, and what it actually takes to lead from choice instead of ala