If you can’t lead with love, don’t lead at all
People have always looked up to leaders. Companies spend millions of dollars on leadership training every year. We elect so-called “leaders” to lead a country. We look-up to school principals to lead education. We even have thought leaders and gurus to help us gain more insight about us, and as such, we like to “follow” their ways to replicate their success. It’s interesting what I said just now. Did you realize something? I said that it’s interesting that we rely on others to give us more insight about ourselves and that we like to follow their ways to replicate their success. It seems to me that we are always chasing something that other people magically have that we don’t, doesn’t it?
Compassion - can it ever exist in the workplace?
A few years ago, I set-off on a path to teach the world love and compassion at work. I designed a program that would help re-connect people at the people-level. This included a lot of human-centric ideas like using eye-contact, the power of laughing, mindfulness, and so on. It was the program that summed-up all of my 20-year corporate experience and all of the hardships I faced at work at that time. I found the same issues happening in whatever position I was in, and in whatever country I was working in at the time. I felt the pain of my fellow employees and the rigid rules that get thrown at us by the companies that we work for.