b"Chapter 11 It is about having a positive impact on your community, your company, your department, your organization, your collaborators, and by extension on the world.As a leader, you don't inspire your team by showing them how amazing you are. Instead, you inspire them by showing them how amazing they are.18.Learn from mistakes: give people permission to make mistakes and an obligation to learn from them. Mistakes are essential to our growth. Also, we often put too much pressure on ourselves to pursue an unrealistic ideal of perfection. Asaleader,letyourteamknowthatthereisnoshameinmaking mistakes and more importantly that you support them when they happen.Ihaveseenpeopleinleadershippositionsduckingandthrowingtheir employees under the bus when mistakes have happened. This way of acting leads to mistrust, lack of inspiration and fear of trying something new.The most amazing people in their pursuit of success have made countless mistakes.Theydidn'tgiveup.Theyperseveredandinspiredmanyto follow their example.As Albert Einstein pointed out, a person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.Leaders are humble enough to admit their mistakes. Successful people are transparent enough with themselves and with others to admit their mistakes.As a leader, you will make mistakes. It's inevitable. Don't beat yourself up, despise yourself, or engage in negative self-talk. All of this is a natural part of the growth process.Rememberthatoneoftheessentialcharacteristicsofaleaderisthe abilitytoadmitmistakes.Decisionmakersarecalledupontomake countless decisions, and sometimes things inevitably go wrong.Many leaders may view admitting error as a sign of weakness, but for the leader, the opposite is true in many cases. 352Germain Decelles"