Left to right: Shirish Kulkarni, Chris Moran (Guardian), Anita Zielina (Better Leaders Lab), Steffi Dobmeier (STERN)

If we are being honest with ourselves, we all make mistakes. In an candid session at last week's International Journalism Festival in Perugia (12 April), newsroom leaders normalised their mistakes and discussed what positives there are to take from the wreckage.

Anita Zielina, founder and CEO of Better Leaders Labs broke down her screw-ups into four buckets: power plays, priorities, preparation disasters, and pain management.

On the power front, she learned the hard way not to gauge power by job titles alone: "I totally failed sometimes to identify the people who actually were powerful and to stakeholder manage them," she admitted, recalling missteps at Stern and NZZ where she ignored key influencers.

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