A short YouTube monologue by Donald Burns (uploaded Mar 2, 2024) arguing that leaders should allow their teams to take risks and make mistakes so they can learn; the leader's responsibility is team learning rather than preventing failure, and this learning is necessary to develop a high-performing team.
You can't prevent failure. I know you love your team. You want them to be successful. You want to give them the tools they need to be successful and you don't want to see them fail. When you're a leader, you must let your team make mistakes because you must let them learn from those mistakes. You're not responsible for results of a team. You're responsible for the learning of your team. You must let them take risk. You must let them make mistakes. You must let them learn from those mistakes. The only way you're ever going to develop a high performing team.
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
