"Yeah, first of all, let me just empathise with you. I know it's not comfortable. I make all my audience say with me, "Let's all say the four scary words, 'I do not know'", and we say it together. And I say, "And I know you were brought up as leaders not to say those words. But what's happening now is, if you pretend you know and you don't, you could be leading your team down a very dangerous path. You have to acknowledge what you don't know as an opportunity to learn, because the first step of learning is to say, 'I don't know', because if you know, you're not learning"."
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Episode 156: Rethinking Leadership for the Future of Work (Interview with Heather McGowan) myHRfuture (June 27, 2023)
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Heather McGowan
Heather McGowan is an American writer. She is the author of the novels Schooling and Duchess of Nothing Schooling was named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek, The Detroit Free Press and The Hartford Courant. McGowan has a master in fine arts from Brown University.
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