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Trusted Leadership? You Need to Own Your Mistakes
My worlds collide
As well as pursuing research about trust, the day-job also sees me take on a number of leadership responsibilities. Mine isn’t just a philosophical face…
Whilst I was working my way through a particularly tricky email, to go to someone I don’t know personally or professionally, I got stuck. I couldn’t think of the right turn of phrase. You know how it is when you’re trying to find the right words to unlock a particular thought.
When that happens, I sometimes engage in some ; that is, I move away to other things on my to-do list and come back to the tricky task with a clear head a little later.
I started reading through some studies and reports that I’d been meaning to get to, but hadn’t yet had time to read. As I went to my list of things that have been in my ‘to read’ pile for a few days, I came across something that really resonated with me in that moment. In fact, it stopped me in my tracks and made me laugh out loud.
Writing to people you don’t trust.
article over at Workhuman was the cause of my double-take.
The vignette the article starts with is this:
‘How long does it take to write an email to…
