See the smoke in the photo? That’s smoke from my tires, and that’s me in my track car, right after spinning out on the racetrack. And I now find myself pointing the wrong direction on the track, with cars coming full bore at me. But we’ll come back to that.
Making a mistake and gracefully recovering is one of the most critical, and also one of the most underdeveloped, skills in leadership. We’ve been conditioned for years to believe that mistakes reflect poorly on our abilities, and are to be avoided at all costs. This typically starts in our early childhood years, and is strongly reinforced in the vast majority of school systems, universities, and corporations.
