Management is a moral exercise, and a moral compass is critical to navigating the web of surprisingly emotional judgment calls that a manager is tasked with everyday.
Vulnerability isn’t nice or mean, it’s honest
I love his definition of vulnerability:
...being willing to do the leg work to be emotionally and intellectually honest when evaluating a situation, and confront the truth when that evaluation diverges from easy outcomes. Confronting the truth takes courage, and it’s easier to make conclusions upstream of details because it spares you the emotional cost of grappling with confounding or unpalatable nuance.