Imagine if the most influential, most powerful, most visible leaders were willing to be vulnerable.
Imagine if they saw vulnerability not as a weakness, but as a show of strength.
Imagine if they revealed a little bit of who they were behind the veneer of "successful, competent, all-knowing business person."
Imagine if they humanized themselves by admitting mistakes, by being transparent, by sharing what they didn't know, by asking for support.
Imagine if the people who worked for these leaders actually saw them as real live human beings with feelings and emotions and hardships and doubts and uncertainties and challenges.
Imagine if they modeled empathy and compassion and curiosity and equanimity.
Imagine if they consistently and intentionally strove to create a culture of belonging for themselves and everyone in their sphere of influence.
Imagine if we could relate to them, and trust them, and respect them as fully, imperfectly human.
Imagine if we were able to truly connect with them.
Imagine if we actually had a meaningful, non-hierarchical relationship with them.
Imagine if we felt we could be vulnerable with them, admit to them our struggles, our doubts, our fears, our worries.
Imagine what our companies would be like.
Imagine what our world would be like.