Tremendous Tracey

After the President survived a third assassination attempt, one reporter asked a question that managed to offend everyone watching. The single word that came before it reveals a leadership lesson hiding in plain sight, and what every leader can take from it.

Leaders are only effective when they foster a culture of ethical discernment and honest dialogue, rather than blind allegiance wrapped in emotional language, such as "non-interference" and "deference." If your team can't ask hard questions, your leadership has stopped being servant-hearted and started being self-serving.