Purpose over Profit with Thrive Causemetics CEO Karissa Bodnar | A Bit of Optimism

There's the false belief that my qualification to be in a leadership position is directly tied to my intelligence, my performance, my ability to make right decisions, my ability to project confidence, whatever, one of those or some combination of those. But that's not your job. Your job is to lead other people who are smarter, more talented, more aware, have different points of view. And ultimately, the only thing you're going to have to do is make a decision. Like, we give you a position of authority because you're accountable for the team, but you will have to make decisions. And when things go right, you're going to have to give away the credit. And when things go wrong, you're going to have to take the responsibility. That's why we give you more money, that's why we give you more perks, because you're ultimately accountable.

Yeah. And it's actually so much more inspiring when you lead that way because you're able to learn. I constantly want to be surrounding myself with people of all levels who are teaching me in the business. And I don't think that title has anything to do with someone's intelligence and what they're going to contribute to the business. And if you approach it from that perspective, you can learn so much from everybody in your business.