A short spoken excerpt (YouTube) in which the speaker argues that openly admitting one lacks a plan can be powerful leadership—but only when paired with an explicit request for help and a demonstrated determination to keep fighting. The combination of vulnerability plus courageous resolve is presented as what inspires others.
So I had to be vulnerable. I had to communicate that I didn't have a plan, that I didn't have a clue. And yet, how did that turn out to be powerful leadership? Right. People were inspired by my vulnerability. People were inspired by my stand. And those two things, it turns out, really do need to go together. So if I just said, hey, I'm. If I collapsed in a crying puddle and said, I don't have a plan and woe is me, that would be one level of take a little courage to do that. But to. To say, I don't have a plan and I could use your help, and I'm not going to quit that. I'm going to fight to the very end, that was really inspiring. Right. That's like Braveheart stuff. People dig that.
