If you feel that you have to be something else and act like someone else, that you have to pretend, you’ll likely spend your days in a hypervigilant state, second-guessing your every move and word. This desire to be perfect keeps you from trying new things, which prevents innovation. Meanwhile, vulnerability from the top down makes room for everyone to try and fail and try again because it is positively modeled for us. This happened to me with another boss, on the Thunderbirds, who appeared to have it all figured out until he finally shared something deeper. Most days, he would share minor,
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