Marc Haine talks with Beth Sherman about how self-awareness and vulnerability in leadership unlock team potential. Sherman emphasizes that leaders who admit what they don't know and create trust build stronger, more engaged teams than those who rely on authority alone.
To your point, it takes self-awareness. But it also takes a level of humility. And it takes a trusting kind of environment as well. If we're in kind of the dictatorial kind of carrot and sticking environment where the boss is always— it gets really hard, I think, for some people to distance themselves from that kind of a work environment. And if the leader had more self-awareness into his behavior, into the behavior of how the team interacts with one another and had the humility to say that, you know what? Maybe I'm the problem here. That would open up a whole world of opportunity for them.
I mean, because leadership is about— you have to be human in leadership. There has to be a tiny bit of vulnerability at least. That's kind of the definition of leadership is is being able to take on the responsibility, but also be human.
