Well, leaving all the status-signaling and meta-signaling aside, I do think this is basically true of me at least sometimes.

When I end up in leadership positions, an enormous amount of my energy gets wasted in managing the resulting anxiety around who I have, or will, inadvertently or unavoidably challenged. Because I am in fact a supplicating wimp, who is nevertheless often (for reasons that have always been unclear to me) treated by those around me as a leader.

And that anxiety is a major contributor to my not getting stuff done.