Marty Linsky - What Makes Leadership Risky

The video explores the complexities and risks of leadership, emphasizing that true leadership often involves telling people what they need to hear rather than what they want to hear. This can lead to resistance and pushback, as it challenges existing beliefs and requires people to abandon past successes. Leadership is described as a process of managing disappointment and distributing loss, akin to grief counseling, as it involves guiding people through change and loss.

What is one reason the speaker suggests leadership is not exercised more often?

• It is not valued in society.

• It requires a lot of resources.

• It involves telling people what they need to hear, not what they want to hear.

• It is too time-consuming.

According to the speaker, what is a common reaction when exercising leadership?

• Financial gain

• Immediate acceptance

• Pushback and resistance

• Increased popularity

What does the speaker say leadership often requires people to do?

• Increase their workload

• Move away from truths that have worked for them

• Follow strict rules

• Adopt new technologies

What is one of the speaker's favorite definitions of leadership?

• Leadership is about maintaining the status quo.

• Leadership is about gaining followers.

• Leadership is about disappointing your own people at a rate they can absorb.

• Leadership is about making everyone happy.

How does the speaker describe the role of leadership in terms of loss?

• Leadership is about avoiding loss at all costs.

• Leadership is about the distribution of loss.

• Leadership is about denying the existence of loss.

• Leadership is about preventing any form of loss.