This Week in Leadership Tactics

Feb. 4, 2022

This week's roundup discusses sharing failures with your team, lessons learned from sports legends and how to hold yourself accountable. 

Feb. 4, 2022—To better assist shop owners with their leadership styles, Ratchet+Wrench has compiled a short list of essential leadership material from some of its favorite sources. Here's a look at a few must-read articles from the past week.

Daniel Pink: Great Leaders Share Their Failures With Their TeamsInc. 

The bestselling author has some counterintuitive advice for how you can harness your regrets to strengthen your team--and yourself.

Leadership Lessons From Jackie Robinson and Sports LegendsEntrepreneur

Here are my top sports legends and what they teach us about leading others.

3 Strategies for Holding Yourself AccountableHarvard Business Review  

As you progress in your career, it often gets harder to ask for help in reaching your goals and staying accountable to yourself to achieve them.

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