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Okay, a leader who believes he must never admit error, thinks he is right. The follower who finds himself with a leader who never admits error, feels the leader is wrong. The question is this, which of them is right?

Or turned the other way, a leader who easily admits his errors is seen as weak and a follower believes a good leader must never admit error or at least never easily, which of them is thinking right? {We can assume this is a wide spread thinking among the followers and not from just one of them.}

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The "rightness" or "wrongness" concept for either a Leader or follower is one which has to do with each persons understanding and application of the two words.
Leadership is all about RESPONSIBILITY and living out with INTEGRITY assigned work/task/position or opportunity. As a Follower, it is not also about fault finding or placing, it is about rendering service, qualitatively and quantitatively, inspite of.
The reality is that leaders should be able to admit their mistakes to their followers. In fact this increases trust and loyalty by making the leader a human being in the eyes of followers. More importantly, by admitting mistakes, employees learn that you are serious about being honest, open, responsible and accountable, and this is fundamental to creating trust and loyalty.

It only takes a minute of thought to verify this. Put yourself in the role of a regular employee. Your boss makes a huge error in such a way that it is obvious to staff, customers, etc that the mistake has been made. If your boss refuses to acknowledge the error, and take responsibility, how do you perceive him? As honest? Trustworthy? No way.

Compare this to a situation where the boss owns up to a mistake. While mistakes aren't great in the first place, owning up mitigates some of the damage. In fact taking responsibility for mistakes can actually enhance the ability to lead.

From my experience, the best leaders – bosses that employers are willing to lay down their lives for- are usually the ones who realize the frailty of their humanity. I once had this boss who often used his erros as the teaching moment. That is what is often missing with most leaders.
Sadly, admitting an error is also seen as a sign of weakness in the workplace culture in Nigeria.

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The reason I raised this topic is cos we actually encourage the type of leadership that does not own up to errors in Nigeria. In fact we encourage un-accountability. The more unaccountable a leader is the more popular he is in the midst of Nigerians so I wonder, why this happens!
We need to straight up attack this and make it right.

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Nigeria not being the case is not our problem but Nigerian not seeing that is the problem. We are so used to so many devices. See the reported reception to the rebukes from Hilary on her visit. We gave excuses and attempted to shut her down in her attempt to be useful to us. We need to build and support right leadership as a society and as individuals.

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