I need to tell you something

I need to tell you something. I hope you don't mind. You see, what I have to tell you might not be something you want to know. But here goes, "You are not always right." This is my polite way of telling you that sometimes you are wrong. It's OK. Believe it or not, we all are wrong about something. We are wrong reg­u­larly and re­peat­edly. It is the nature of who we are. I am not asking you to dwell on when you are wrong or what it is you are wrong about. I ask you to consider how are you wrong? Trans­la­tion, when you are wrong about something, how do you behave and how does this impact your team? Perhaps you do this because you come from a culture where ad­mit­ting an error is a sign of weakness or you are afraid of losing face. When you are wrong and you hide it, you are teaching your team to engage in the same be­hav­ior. This makes it very dif­fi­cult to proac­tively solve issues When you try to cover up the fact that you are wrong about something you damage your integrity. . When you look for someone else to blame, you are hiding the fact that you are wrong PLUS telling a lie about someone else. This is even worse for your in­tegrity and your cred­i­bil­ity. Now you are teach­ing your team to use other team mem­bers as human shields. This makes it very dif­fi­cult to build any kind of high per­form­ing team. When you are wrong and you admit it, you model re­spon­si­bil­ity and in­tegrity for your team. You can proac­tively ad­dress is­sues, you can demon­strate how to be­have like an adult pro­fes­sional and you can all move for­ward. So here goes, "You are not al­ways right." This is my po­lite way of telling you that some­times you are wrong. It's OK. Be­lieve it or not, we all are wrong about some­thing.

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