S2E7: Leadership Hack - Owning Your Failures (feat. Dave Tomczyk, Ph.D.)

30/09/2025 14 min
S2E7: Leadership Hack - Owning Your Failures (feat. Dave Tomczyk, Ph.D.)

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In this Leadership Hack, Dave Tomczyk, Ph.D., discusses the importance of embracing failure as a vital leadership tool. He explains that effective leaders own their mistakes—by acknowledging, apologizing, and correcting them—while also creating a culture that allows employees to fail, learn, and grow. This conversation reinforces that leaders should encourage learning through mistakes, model ownership, and focus on maximizing success rather than avoiding failure.

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