This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "Jonah Greenberger: The Meaning of Leadership" created on November 2, 2016. It features a discussion led by Jonah Greenberger with multiple speakers sharing their perspectives on leadership, including taking responsibility, leading by example, and empowering others.
You are all now in these leadership roles. How do you think about leadership and developing your own leadership? And how would you describe your leadership style?
Yeah, leadership to me means taking responsibility for things that go wrong, of which we've had a few things go wrong. And so I think owning up to those things, and especially when you're leading a team and the responsibility falls on multiple people for that, then that ultimately reflects on you. So being able to, as a leader, to accept those things and understand when you're running a startup that there are financial and other consequences that come out of that of which are fairly large, being able to kind of prepare for those scenarios and being able to expect what will you do when you have to accept some of those consequences?
I think for me, leadership is a couple of things. The first is leadership by example. And so I think we're all responsible for modeling the behaviors and the values that we want surrounding us at our companies. And the other element of it is empowerment. So I think it's amazing what people can do when they feel like they own something, they're accountable for it, they're responsible for it, and they have the. The trust from you as a leader to be able to do a great job and that you'll help them if they trip. And so I think that sort of empowerment is incredibly fulfilling. And I've experienced that for myself. And so that's what I try to model as.
Well, I just want to reiterate that last point. I totally agree. I think empowering others is one of the most important things you can do as a leader. I'm good at a couple of things and I'm not good at a ton of things. And so the only way you can make progress is if you really enable others. And it's really scary, just so you know, to just like, hand over, especially if you start a company to hand over your baby and say, like, no, you make the decision like, I trust you. You have more information than I do, which, by the way, you'll never have enough information. And so other people probably that are closer to the opportunity will have way more. So just figure out how to start letting go, like hire well, so you can let go. Trust those people, enable those people. They'll step up way more than you think. And I think that's worked really well for us.
