lesson for "Leaders Make Mistakes." Let's go to the beginning. They have a phrase "they make no bones about it." Tom Peters says "Leaders make mistakes and they make no bones about it.

<p>Page 1</p> <p>The Effortless</p> <p>English Club</p> <p>Automatic English For The People</p> <p>Leaders Make Mistakes Vocabulary Text</p> <p>Hello, this is AJ, welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Leaders Make Mistakes."</p> <p>Let's go to the beginning. They have a phrase "they make no bones about it." Tom</p> <p>Peters says "Leaders make mistakes and they make no bones about it." So that's a</p> <p>little idiom there, to make no bones about something. When you say "they make no</p> <p>bones about it", it means they don't apologize for it or they don't try to hide it. They</p> <p>don't feel bad about it. That's the meaning of this phrase.</p> <p>It means you do something and you're not worried about it. You don't apologize for it.</p> <p>You don't feel bad about it. You don't try to hide it. You feel good. So it says they</p> <p>make mistakes and they make no bones about it. It means they make mistakes and</p> <p>they don't feel bad about making the mistakes, they feel good. They make mistakes</p> <p>and they don't apologize. They don't say "I'm sorry. I'm sorry I made a mistake,"</p> <p>right? They make no bones about it. They do not apologize.</p> <p>They are direct and honest about it. They don't try to hide it, they don't feel bad about</p> <p>it and they don't apologize. They make no bones about making mistakes. They don't</p> <p>apologize for making mistakes. They don't try to hide their mistakes. They don't feel</p> <p>bad about mistakes. They make no bones about it.</p> <p>Okay, then a little later he says "In placid times leaders can pretend to have the</p> <p>answers." Okay, placid. Placid means calm, calm (c-a-l-m), calm. So it means</p> <p>nothing is changing, right? Everything is calm and slow and relaxed. So during placid</p> <p>times in the economy, in history, when everything is calm, then the leaders can</p> <p>pretend they are strong. They can pretend they are perfect. They can pretend they</p> <p>know everything. So in calm times leaders could, in the past, pretend to know</p> <p>everythin