As I look back over the last decade, we know so many things have changed. COVID hit. There’s new um values and work rhythms. Uh attention span is decreasing. Trust in organizations is collapsing. A whole new generation of people are entering the workforce with different values and expectations. You’ve had AI um and many other things.
And so when it comes to leading, if you’re not changing, you’re probably not growing. And as one who’s led now for over three decades, uh when I look back at my own leadership, while my values haven’t changed, my views on leadership, uh they’re continually evolving and changing and many times in big ways.
And so what I want to do in the next couple of episodes is I want to dig into some of those changes. Um some of the things that I got wrong. And in this episode, I’m going to talk about five times I was wrong and what it taught me. Uh in the next episode, we’re going to deal with some other more specifics that I believe can help you grow in your leadership.
So uh first of all, when I started three decades ago in leadership, I used to believe some things. I’m going to tell you what I used to believe and I’m going to tell you what I believe now. These are some of the things that I got wrong. Uh I used to believe that great leaders needed to be confident and right.
That we needed to stand up and and and be right. But I learned number one that a key to growth is a willingness to be wrong often. And I want to highlight that part often that if you really want to be growing as a leader, you have to be wrong, be willing to be wrong. And not just occasionally, but you have to actually be good at being wrong so that you grow.
And I’ll unpack this because whenever you start leading, and some of you are younger or new newer in your leadership, you’ll see that you start with this very pure passion. And that’s a good thing. you’re um almost naive in a good way, but the problem is you have limited perspective. You just haven’t seen a lot yet.
