Leading with fear is a job any human can use their primitive faculties to do. The problem is it’s no longer strongman rule, you aren’t popular, and people are free to leave.
Leading with love is far more sustainable. Sure, some people won’t love you back, won’t love the team or work, will have their own agendas, and will leave anyway, but they weren’t the ones you wanted or needed on your team anyway.
Really caring about your team and what you are doing and who you are doing it for is a mark of a leader who is doing it right. Of course, we need other leadership skills too, but when you go for win-win-win because anyone losing because of your leadership is unacceptable, you will be more likely to win, and win for the long run.
I LOVE this one! Thank you Larry!
I LOVED this one as well Larry! I always try hard to “love the team”, get to know them and their interests, be supportive and a good leader, but there are always the few that you can’t quite reach through to and when they do eventually leave, I take it personally and shouldn’t. You can only try to be your best, and you can’t let those few bring you down. It happens. At all companies…even yours!
Theres a great book dedicated to this exact thing! its called “love works” by joel manby and has been amazingly helpful to unlearn old leadership styles and bring in the empathy, caring, and remind me efficiency is more effective when employees feel good about their role in a company.
cant lie- eyerolled at a few things, but then realized those are the things i NEED to pay attention to. what we fight the most is where we need the most change within!