Do Leaders Need to Be Kind?

Kindness in leadership? Sounds a bit foofy doesn’t it?

Let me start this by asking you a different question: Why are there leaders who aren’t kind? Partially, it’s because most of us have a stereotyped image of a leader as some superhero who stands and commands his followers with no need to be kind because they will follow anyway. This is an image from another, ancient time.

As an executive coach, I have worked all over the place for the last twenty years and seen the devastating impact of ‘superheroes’ who promote efficiency over humanity.

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