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Great Leaders Don’t Have Every Answer

19 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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Great leaders admit when they don't know something and create space for their team to challenge them. Setting a ground rule that you're not the smartest person in the room builds trust and gets better ideas from everyone.

You're not the smartest person in the room. So it requires leaders to really set that ground rule that allows people to really open up, challenge them, and make sure that creative answers can emerge to the questions that they're posing in the world. The other one that I'll highlight is vulnerability. You know, a critical dimension is for leaders to be able to say when they don't know the answer to a question, how do they honestly say that they don't know the answer?

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