Professor Mark Fritz on Leadership

Today I was lucky enough to be at a conference listening to Mark Fritz about leadership (courtesy of IE Business School and PwC Portugal), and there were a couple of messages that came through as especially important:
- the importance of driving clarity of objective, target and purpose to the team, in order to empower them to own the outcomes;
- that leadership is a lot more about asking than telling
- and that as a leader, one of your roles is that "your how is who" - meaning, you know the objective, you need to find the right person to do the job.

But then, there was another snippet - a quick sentence Mark said, jokingly, but that, for me, is a true statement about companies social cultures:
- "Great leaders share their weaknesses because their people already know them".

Do you share your weaknesses - or do you let your teams find them out by themselves and own your narrative?