How Showing Vulnerability Helps Build a Stronger Team

Author Daniel Coyle suggests that sharing one’s vulnerability as a leader is a key to developing trust and cooperation in teams.

We think about trust and vulnerability the way we think about standing on solid ground and leaping into the unknown. First we build trust, then we leap. But science is showing we’ve got it backward. Vulnerability doesn’t come after trust — it precedes it. Leaping into the unknown, when done alongside others, causes the solid ground of trust to materialize beneath our feet.

This article from the TED Ideas site is an excerpt from Coyle’s book  The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups. Learn more about his ideas in this TEDxTalk