Think of this scenario: your group has a new manager that none of you have met. Now lets imagine that this manager is fairly inexperienced (you don't know that

Think of this scenario: your group has a new manager that none of you have met. Now lets imagine that this manager is fairly inexperienced (you don't know that yet). Consider a couple of options. 1) They come in at first aggressively controlling, because they don't want to look inexperienced or weak. 2) They come in saying 'Look team, I don't really know what I'm doing yet, and I need your help working it out' The vulnerability exists in both cases (inexperience). How you treat it can hugely effect team dynamics. I think work like this often suggests the latter approach is much more effective on average. NB there are definitely times when showing vulnerability isn't going to help things at all.