{"id":722,"date":"2015-03-24T21:39:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T21:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregmowbray.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2015-03-24T21:39:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T21:39:56","slug":"im-not-proud-of-what-im-about-to-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/im-not-proud-of-what-im-about-to-tell-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;M NOT PROUD OF WHAT I&#8217;M ABOUT TO TELL YOU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Last week I made a mistake. Not a big one, but one I&#8217;m not proud of and I regret the fall out to others and the harm it may have caused\u00a0to my reputation.I was sloppy as a result of being distracted and rushed.<\/p>\n<p>I had a couple of choices once I realised what I had done. One was to pretend nothing happened and hope that no one noticed. I might have chosen this in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Another was to own what I did, apologise and vow to be more careful in the future. I chose this path and am\u00a0glad I did. Importantly, I did this <em>immediately<\/em> I realised the mistake. I didn&#8217;t wait to see if anyone noticed. I just took responsibility for it straight away.<\/p>\n<p>When you <em>own <\/em>a mistake you do several things<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>you do the <em>right<\/em> thing &#8211; even though this might be the hard thing<\/li>\n<li>you show others that you care &#8211; even though it&#8217;s painful<\/li>\n<li>you reveal that you are vulnerable &#8211; people know that you are not perfect and showing that you are human increases the likelihood they will engage with you<\/li>\n<li>you learn &#8211; I am going to be more present and more organised in future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Something unexpected happened soon after I acted to take responsibility for the mistake. I received a lot of communication, mostly\u00a0positive, about acting honestly and quickly. In some ways I turned a negative into a positive.Being authentic is paramount to being an effective leader. Even when you stuff up you can grow your leadership capability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I made a mistake. Not a big one, but one I&#8217;m not proud of and I regret the fall out to others and the harm it may have caused\u00a0to my reputation.I was sloppy as a result of being distracted and rushed. I had a couple of choices once I realised what I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}