Advice from Jill Geisler, Bill Plante Chair in Leadership & Media Integrity at Loyola University Chicago and Freedom Forum Fellow in Women’s Leadership
I bombed on Wordle.
In the same week I nailed one on the second try, I broke my winning streak.
With a newbie’s pride and joy, I had posted 5 winning scores on Twitter.
I felt like a leader in Wordle World.
But now I failed. My word-nerd ego took a hit. Who wants to broadcast their loser status? It was SO tempting to keep it to myself.
But how forthcoming is that? Does that jibe with what I teach about leadership — the importance of handling, not hiding from, mistakes or misfortune?
So I tweeted my big fat failure grid with this message above it: