As more companies set goals toward gender equality and want leaders who can engage their younger employees, leadership opportunities for women will grow. Although women’s innate gift of compassion gives them the edge, it also prevents them from being exceptional leaders. Women express compassion most often by giving themselves fully. They’ve learned it’s better than receiving. Yet this creates an imbalance with negative consequences. Their blind spot of learning “to receive” is the key that unlocks the freedom for women to seize the opportunities unfolding and become the exceptional leaders needed in this century.

Here’s how to be exceptional by learning “to receive.”