Great, thought-inducing article, but I was a bit disappointed that you didn't give us a specific example for how you've screwed up as a leader. You reference your previous two stories, and you talk about how someone *in general* can screw up as a leader, but not how you did; only that you did.

I'm not trying to ask you to embarrass yourself publicly for our amusement... leadership is more complex than either coaching or fixing. I dunno about everyone else, but the more complex the topic, the more I learn best from other people's experiences, rather than from principle or abstraction. So I went into this article eager to hear about the experiences... and indeed the two you shared already taught me a good deal, especially the first (the second represents a problem I know I have and work on fixing; the first is a new idea to me). I just wish I could've gotten a similarly specific case to ponder for the third role.