LEAD WITH LOVE

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW – LOVE AND LEADERSHIP

I can’t think of a single instance in history that describes an organization that has been managed out of a crisis.

Every single one of them was led.

As we have all witnessed, and some even experienced first-hand, the world is filled with danger right now, COVID-19 is a killer virus trying to frustrate every aspect of our lives, reduce our success or our opportunity for growth.

To a lesser extent the same could be said of the ups and downs in the economy, the uncertainty of the stock and job market. It could be a new technology that renders your business model obsolete overnight.

Competition may be trying to put you out of business, or working hard to frustrate your growth and steal your business from you.

These are a constant, and they're not going away.

The only variable are the conditions inside each business, and that's where leadership counts most, because it's the leader that sets the culture.

When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and lives of the people inside the company first, to sacrifice their comforts and sacrifice the tangible results, so that the people remain and feel safe and feel like they belong, remarkable things happen.

If the conditions are wrong, we are forced to expend our own time and energy to protect ourselves from each other, and that inherently weakens the company. When we feel safe inside the company, we will naturally combine our talents and our strengths and work tirelessly to face the dangers outside and seize the opportunities.

The closest analogy to what a great leader is, is like being a parent. If you think about what being a great parent is, what do you want? What makes a great parent? We want to give our child opportunities, education, discipline them when necessary, all so that they can grow up and achieve more than we could for ourselves.

Great leaders want exactly the same thing. They want to provide their people opportunity, education, discipline when necessary, build their self-confidence, give them the opportunity to try and fail, all so that they could achieve more than we could ever imagine for ourselves.

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