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Vulnerability is power in leadership and relationships

By Learning Forward
December 2011
Vol. 32 No. 6
 Every family has its stories, its inside jokes. One of my family’s is that, no matter what question someone asks of me, my answer is frequently, “I don’t know, but I’m delighted you thought I did.” The fact is, I really don’t know. And the older I get, the more I feel like an ecstatic Scrooge, dancing around in his nightgown at the end of A Christmas Carol, singing, “I don’t know anything. I never did know anything. But now I KNOW that I don’t know anything.” It frightened his housekeeper, but what happiness, what freedom. Not knowing, not having all the answers, and not needing to have the answers becomes a leader. I highly recommend it. People will want to pull up a chair

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Authors

Deli Moussavi-Bock

Deli Moussavi-Bock ([email protected]) is the director of training for Fierce in the Schools. 

References

Brown, B. (2010, June). The power of vulnerability. Video from TEDx Houston. Available at www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html.


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