🌱 Leading from Weakness: Embracing the Suck
LIP #147
Jul 16, 2025
Leading from weakness = One of the hardest business skills to master
🎯 What it means: Embracing the "suck"
- Acknowledging challenges in your work
- Accepting team shortcomings
- Most importantly: Recognizing your own weaknesses
⚠️ The Blind Spot Problem:
- Discovering blind spots triggers intense shame
- Worse as you age (realizing years lived with the blind spot)
- Requires nuanced, detailed insights to recognize
🌿 Shame = Garden Weeds:
- Natural and unavoidable occurrence
- Can't be completely eliminated
- Key: Learn to embrace and manage, don't deny
- Ignored shame grows and takes over
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