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If You’ve Been Doing Stuff Perfectly, Plan in Some Mistakes

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We have few good role models to show us how to clean up the messes everyone inevitably makes in life, love , and leadership. Our president, in well-conditioned masculine fashion, won’t even entertain the idea that he’s made any . Our public relations industry and social media accounts dominate our institutions with their ability to put a positive spin on anything, even if their mistakes are deadly. Our corporations can’t admit problems even to their stockholders. Cover-up and confusion, deception and denial are second-nature to a business model that produces numerous failures and bankruptcies, such as Trump industries . Back in 1993 M. Scott Peck in A World Waiting to be Born: Civility Rediscovered argued that there will never be true civility and community until our institutions, including our businesses, are willing to publicly speak of their mistakes and how they’ve corrected them, and to risk the vulnerability they fear such admissions would entail.   It's unlikely that we le...