Ajay: Whats happening at school these days, dear?
Jahnavi: A new teacher has joined, Papa. Yesterday, while she was teaching us, one of my classmates asked her a question to which she didnt know the answer. She said she will refer and get back to us. The whole class is now talking behind her back.
Ajay: But why?
Jahnavi: What kind of a teacher needs to look it up when she is asked a doubt?
Ajay: The kind of teacher who didnt let her ego get in the way of passing on the correct information to her students.
Jahnavi: But isnt a teacher supposed to know everything? What if your employees approach you for the right judgement and you dont have one? Isnt this like that?
Ajay: Neither your teacher nor your father is omnipotent dear. We are imperfect human beings. But what makes one a great leader is when s/he recognises his/her flaws and not let those flaws affect the larger scheme of things.
Jahnavi: How does someones personal flaws affect the larger scheme of things?
Ajay: How many students are there in your class?
Jahnavi: 50
Ajay: When your classmate raised his doubt, what if the teacher got insecure and decided to mask it at any cost? All fifty of you would have ended up with wrong info, right? Or what if she was the controlling type and silenced the boy who raised the question? You will all be apprehensive to ask questions in the future and grow up into adults who would not question anything. Similarly, even in business, when a leader is insecure, controlling, impulsive or overconfident, it impacts the functioning of the whole organisation negatively.
Jahnavi: Why didnt I think this way before! My respect has doubled now, for my teacher as well as for my papa