A speaker (podcast/Youtube) reflects on leadership in technology, arguing that emotional openness and vulnerability are valuable traits for leaders. They credit the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) — particularly confidential peer-sharing (inside forums, top-10/bottom-10 lists) — for showing that successful founders can be human, imperfect, and candid about doubts.
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I worked in technology, and as I'm sure you can imagine, you don't generally lead with your emotions in tech, especially for developers and things like that. It's not, you know, you're not sitting around talking about your feelings. But actually EO was. Was one of the first places, you know, with those shares and inside forum and that level of confidentiality and just like the top 10 and bottom 10 that you're sharing, where I was like, oh, you can actually be a real person and lead a company. You don't have to be, you know, perfect or you don't have to know all the answers. And that was kind of the first time where I saw these people that I was really, you know, I really respected and were building these amazing big companies that I sort of was like, oh, and they also struggle or they also have doubt or questions. So that was kind of the first time I sort of was like, I got it. You can actually be a human and run a company. You don't have to be perfect all the way around.