Leadership isn’t avoiding mistakes. It’s making them where everyone can see how you clean them up.

A record with no errors in it means either you did nothing difficult or you hid something. What people need from whoever is in charge is not perfection but a demonstration of recovery, since they will all have to recover from something eventually. Watching you handle your own mess is the only training that really prepares them. Hidden mistakes teach nothing except that mistakes must be hidden.

When you get something wrong this week, do the fixing in the open rather than quietly. Say what happened, what you changed, and what it cost. Let people see the unimpressive middle part of it.