One of the most powerful things we can do for other people is to give feedback. Unsolicited, unexpected, positive feedback, is especially impactful. It can also be especially challenging to give.

Building up resilience, building up our tolerance for failure, allows us to choose to be vulnerable and authentic. It’s what allows us to say something in that meeting; to question assumptions; to inspire the team to try something new; invest ourselves in a mission or even in another person

Authenticity. Vulnerability. Resilience. I believe these are the pillars of leadership at work, that they’re deeply important to our lives today, and that they’re inextricably interconnected. If we want to lead, or if we want lead fully realized lives, we have to embrace these concepts