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If I exposed myself and looked dumb for a while but learned something new at the end, then it was worth using that vulnerability to have some learning.
Here, Herbie Hancock talks about how a time when he, in his words, made a mistake, but Miles Davis found that event as an opportunity to change the next notes to make Hancock sound right.
Read MoreWhen you share an unfinished product, you give people a chance to engage with you, that is shared enrollment.
On this day I learned a lesson on altMBA about a style of leadership that worked really well for me.
We were discussing about which idea to pick between two options and while the subject was common, everyone had different definitions and details in their minds.
When I shared the unfinished/half baked work I was doing, everyone could look at one thing and develop from there.
Read MoreWinning has a price, and leadership has a price. So I pulled people along when they didn’t want to be pulled. I challenged people when they didn’t want to be challenged.
And I earned that right because teammates came after me. They didn’t endure all the things that I endured.
Once you joined the team, you lived at a certain standard that I played the game, and I wasn’t going to take anything less. Now if that means I had to go in there and get in your ass a little bit, then I did that. …you ask all my teammates, “The one thing about Michael Jordan, he never asked me to do something that he didn’t fucking do.”
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Who sees you, and who do you see in return?
What does it mean for those on the journey to listen to you, and given the asymmetric nature of leadership (there’s more of them than there are of you), how can you possibly listen back?
— Seth Godin
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/leaders-dont-hide-behind-data/