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A hallmark of a trusting relationship is that people feel they can share their mistakes, challenges, and fears with you.
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061 |
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It isn’t easy to discuss mistakes, confront tensions, or talk about deep fears or secret hopes, but no strong relationship can be built on superficial pleasantries alone.
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061 |
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Make no mistake: intrepid or gutsy individuals are hardly fearless; they are simply better than the rest of the population at coping with, and even thriving in, fear-based environments.
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075 |
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…a failure is just a moment in time. If you learn the right lesson from your mistake, you won’t make it again.
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129 |
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…unless your failure involved a capital crime, you now have the opportunity to learn from your mistake, recover, and improve your approach to the next challenge.
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124 |
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…leaders cannot delegate the solving of problems to someone else. They have to be active in breaking through obstacles, putting out fires, correcting mistakes, and directing people.
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141 |
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Good leaders forge ahead, break ground, and make mistakes. And they expect the same from their people.
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199 |
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Since you can’t prevent mistakes, why not adopt an attitude in which you can learn from them? That’s the only way anyone can really profit from mistakes anyway.
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199 |
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You don’t have to live with a decision forever. If you make a mistake, you can correct it later.
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078 |
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…small decisions mean you can afford to change. There’s no big penalty if you mess up. You just fix it.
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130 |
