Leaders are made… in tough situations. Yesterday was such a situation. Wickus is moving to a new position. He is asking a valid question: when will this be announced? What’s the response? First, I’ll take care of it. Then, after a week or so, we don’t want to announce it. “Nothing good can come out of it.” Seriously?
What can I learn from it? Never do that as a leader. It’s good to learn from these types of mistakes made by others. It’s good to have these in the back pocket so when a situation like this happens, you know your stand. Or you know what will happen first hand.
Some of these mistakes can be forgotten for a company. But such situation show company culture. One thing doesn’t change that much, but if it’s followed by more, and more. Then we can say we have a different company. Is it a good company? Good question.