Tell the world about your work
Talk about your job – exciting or dull.
Tattle about your boss – good or bad.
Tell us about your company – progressive or backward.

The idea of Leading With Kindness has great and broad appeal. So much so, in fact, that Bill Baker has been interviewed or offered commentary in several boradcast venues.

Traveling around the country interviewing dozens of people who work for and run these amazing companies, it’s hard not to catch the kindness fever.

While talking to some of the people at Google recently about how the company managed to score #1 in the “Fortune 500 Best Companies to Work For” for the past two years in a row, I came across a term that I had never heard before: Googly.

Kind Leaders aren’t sissies. When we say “kind”, we do not mean to imply that some one should be a pushover or sucker. A kind leader is not a permissive person whose underlings run wild.