Repeat after me, “I don’t know.”  Or in text language, “IDK.”  Those are the three hardest words for anyone in a leadership role to master.  Or that has been my experience, anyway. 

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While rushing to my car yesterday in down town Austin I tripped over a crack in the sidewalk, pulled my right hamstring and almost splayed out in front of a bus load of people.  How embarrassing!  After righting myself from my rapid descent into the pavement, I locked eyes with the bus driver, shrugged my shoulders and started laughing.  He did too!  So with a smile on my face, a slight limp in my right leg and my head held high, I forged on across the street to my car, grateful that it wasn’t a busy intersection with a bigger audience.   I laugh at myself often.   How often do you laugh at yourself?  Or do you take yourself so seriously that instead of laughing and learning, you are chastising and fretting? (more…)