Why We Need Vulnerable Leaders

One of the hard realities of starting a business or coming into a new leadership position is that, unless you’ve done it many times before, you likely don’t know how to do your job well. This doesn’t mean you’re not talented; it’s just the nature of constantly confronting the edge of the unknown. One of the most important lessons I learned early in my startup career was that nobody else knows what the hell they’re doing, either (never mind their humblebrags on LinkedIn). 

The most successful people are those who, faced with their own inadequacy, move forward anyway. They’re not blessed with special talents, they’re just people who keep going despite all the reasons not to. You grow into yourself as a leader when you learn to stop pretending to have all the answers and instead are willing to be yourself—warts and all—and step into the immense uncertainty of leadership. Scared, absolutely. But undeterred. 

Read more here: https://www.mindful.org/why-we-need-vulnerable-leaders/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&utm_campaign=organic_link_post