I have a question… Q. What do the following have in common? A CEO referred for coaching A Team Leader with a grievance lodged against the 500 employees listening to the announcement of organisational change A couple experiencing conflict   A.      Success or failure in these tasks will primarily depend on how each of them respond to vulnerability. Vulnerability is not a very Corporate sounding word and consequently, this is a bold assertion.  I’m not sure there are many MBA units dedicated to the topic.  Yet in my 20 years of working with people in the board room, the counselling room and the class room, how people respond to vulnerability is the fastest way I have of getting to know both their capacity for learning and their most powerful development task. Brene Brown writes extensively in this area, and notes the intolerance we have developed in the present day for vulnerability. Take emailing over face to face communication.  Face to face communication brings uncerta