The Washington Post website offers a series of of video interviews offering opinions on various qualities of leadership. Today's feature focuses on a personal crusade of mine: the ability to admit mistakes.
Paul Schmitz, CEO of the nonprofit organization Public Allies, tells Washington Post business columnist Steve Pearlstein "why fessing up about your failings strengthens your role as a leader."
One of my favorite "ah-ha" moments in the interview is when Schmitz discusses the "risk" of acknowledging weaknesses.
"It's not like these things are secrets," Schmitz says. "Everyone knows it; everyone sees it. And so I think that a lot of times that we have this denial in ourselves that people recognize...but everyone knows. And if we just say it, it makes it a lot easier to deal with."
Watch the whole interview here:
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