The Best Leaders Acknowledge Their Mistakes

Key points

Leaders don’t try to cover up their mistakes; they acknowledge them and move on.

Leaders are responsible for an organization in all its dimensions; they don’t manage only in emergencies.

The long view is crucial to successful leadership; myopic leaders can’t succeed

When people lose trust in a leader, it’s hard for a that leader to retain their position

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When leaders assume “responsibility,” they take ownership of a situation, managing it in as many dimensions as necessary so that problems are resolved and all the moving parts operate in sync. They may need to call on skills they didn’t know they had —or develop new ones fast.

But beyond skills, responsibility is an attitude. It implies attentiveness, and the will to make hard choices. I