A simple way to broaden your leadership impact is to give your team the opportunity to be wrong. The old mantra “you learn from your mistakes” can be taken to an extreme of course — we should probably learn far more from our successes. But being wrong about something and having it blow up in our face is a huge growth opportunity. And we need to give our team the opportunity to make those mistakes.
A few years ago I was enjoying a glass of wine (and probably a cigar) with a leader who had built a successful organization. He …