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 assumptions does the speaker make about the truths people hold when exercising leadership?

In what ways does the speaker suggest that leadership involves grief counseling?