Change your position in public
The hardest decision a leader makes in public is admitting they were wrong.
Publicly admitting a wrong opinion, backed by evidence, is one of the most effective things a leader can do, and it has to come from the top.
It does not just resonate with the one team watching it happen. It ripples through the rest of the company and gives everyone else permission to fail, learn, and say so out loud.
New executives especially tend to keep solving problems for the people who now report to them, which disempowers those people from doing great work.
What you get
- Three prep fields: the opinion you held, the evidence that contradicted it, your position now
- The exact shape of the line that resonates, worked from a real example
- A note on the disempowering instinct that trips up most new executives
Where should we send it?
One email with the worksheet. You can unsubscribe from anything else in one click.
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Adapted from the Leadership chapter of The Mindful Product Company by Sam McAfee.