Leadership is one of the hardest roles a person can step into. No matter what you do, you won’t please everyone—and people will talk. Oh, will they talk. They’ll talk about things they think they know… and have absolutely no clue about. I once served on a leadership team where someone outside the group accused our leader of manipulating us—saying he pushed his own agenda and swayed our decisions. That couldn’t have been further from the truth. All he did was create a simple agenda of what we needed to cover—something he was trained to do professionally. He never told us what to think. In fact, most of our discussions…