The Paradox of Trust, Vulnerability and Leadership

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Thank you Switch and Shift for this series on trust!

"We usually think of great leaders as strong, unflappable, all-knowing, all-confident and ready to forge ahead.  They have all the answers, they know where they are going, and we trust them without doubt and question. Wrong! Great leaders are strong but don’t hide all their emotions. They know a lot but not everything, they are confident but not arrogant and they are ready to forge ahead – with the help of their team’s insights and inputs.  They want to be challenged and they want hidden assumptions brought to light and questioned." Read on...

Trust Trumps Everything

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Innovation Excellence graciously shares my chapter in Luis Solis's book, Innovation Alchemists: what every CEO needs to know to hire the right Chief Innovation Officer.  

"Successful Chief Innovation Officers give their employees room to experiment, providing air cover for them, running interference, and in general respecting, trusting and supporting them...(read more)"

"The best way to find out if you can trust someone is to trust them" Ernest Hemingway