Radical honesty is about facing the truth of what’s not working. It’s about moving from fear and denial to making more conscious choices and decisions. In business, it means telling the truth about your market, your industry, your company, and your job. It means clearly facing business challenges, anticipating future trends, and finding ways to innovate—before someone else forces you to change.
Radical honesty ultimately frees you. The hardest place to start on the path to honesty is with ourselves. It’s simply easier to tell ourselves what we want to hear or what we think will make us feel better than what is ultimately truthful about what’s going on. The issue with this kind of benevolent mendacity is that it creates blind spots. These blind spots shield us from reality and keep us from fully utilizing our keen senses and loving awareness to collect the feedback that is all around us. Without that feedback, it is so much harder for us to learn and grow; therein lies our dilemma. Without growth, we perish.
Try this: On a piece of paper, identify where you want to be, how you want to grow, and the goals you have in mind. Now, being as realistic as possible, identify why your hopes are not your reality. What’s the hold-up?
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