Leadership and Being Misunderstood
If you can't tolerate being misunderstood, then you can't be trusted to make long-term decisions.
Show me a people-pleaser in a leadership role, and either I will show you an ineffective leader who busies themselves with the shuffle-work of trying to please everyone or I will show you a leader deeply tormented by the necessity to make hard, long-term decisions and endure their ensuing discontents. I’m learning that the endurance of a leader is directly tied to that person’s acceptance that sometimes they will be misunderstood by the people they so desperately want to understand them. If you can't tolerate being misunderstood, then you can't be trusted to make long-term decisions.