# Why leaders don't need all the right answers

- **Episode:** [179](https://agents.truthliesandwork.com/episodes/179.md) (2025-03-13)
- **Type:** interview
- **Tags:** leadership, answers, humility
- **Time:** 9:01–10:26 (start 541s)
- **Listen:** [https://truthliesandwork.com/179?t=541](https://truthliesandwork.com/179?t=541)

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[9:01] Eric Stone: I think, and I might have even been victim along the way, that you're supposed to have all the right answers. And really what's important is you ask the right questions. And so, you know, I used to use what we called was a think tank. And these were my culture carriers. You know, these were a group of managers who would come together, who would help me and guide me through maybe some of the things I wasn't seeing within the field. And that was tremendously helpful. But I think a misconception might be right now that you're supposed to have all the answers, and that is not the case, but be really good about asking the right questions
[9:37] Leanne Elliott: How have you seen leadership change over the last 20 years?
[9:40] Eric Stone: Well, I mean, I think, as I mentioned, with the 5 generations and this flexibility debate, I think people have really had to have a platform where there is some sort of, I call it the LOL, this listen, observe, and learn from their team in whatever setting that that you could have. And I think that is probably one of the critical components as you go into these choppy waters. You have to be very adaptable. If there's anything we learned from the pandemic is these situations must— we must rethink how we're going to be doing things. And so I think that the ability to really start to utilize your team and pull some information to be able to synthesize, to ask those right questions is critical right now