“I’m OK — You’re OK”: A Leadership Position, Not a Personality Trait
Recently, I was digging through old memories and landed on a mentoring session with one of my former CTOs.
At that time, a decade ago, I was a passionate team leader — dedicated, intense, sharp, cynical, and uncompromising.
A high-performing asshole.
During one of our 1:1s, my CTO drew simple statements on the whiteboard:
I’m OK, you’re not OK ← “Mirek, it’…
