{"id":3035,"date":"2024-06-18T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2024-06-06T13:59:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T13:59:21","slug":"the-power-of-i-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/the-power-of-i-dont-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Know&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ineffective leaders often make bad decisions just because they feel they need to have an answer for everything. But as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/jason-aten\/if-you-regularly-use-these-3-words-youre-a-smarter-leader-than-you-think.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this article<\/a> in <strong>Inc.<\/strong> points out, saying &#8220;I don&#8217;t know&#8221; isn&#8217;t a sign of weakness. It actually shows that you value your team&#8217;s expertise, and that you know they may have ideas and solutions you may not have considered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Big business is beginning to recognize this effective leadership principle &#8230; and like the shift from &#8220;top down&#8221; to &#8220;collaborative leadership,&#8221; it definitely applies to education, too!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ineffective leaders often make bad decisions just because they feel they need to have an answer for everything. But as this article in Inc. points out, saying &#8220;I don&#8217;t know&#8221; isn&#8217;t a sign of weakness. It actually shows that you value your team&#8217;s expertise, and that you know they may have ideas and solutions you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[584],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-leadership-teamwork-collaboration-inc-magazine-jason-aten","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3038,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions\/3038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}