5. Micromanage
If you’ve done your homework and hired the right people, there should be no need to micromanage them. Give them direction, set challenging but realistic goals and keep them well motivated. By telling employees exactly what to do you destroy any motivation they might have to think for themselves and make valuable contributions.
4. Fail [...]

10. Find an Inspirational Space
There is nothing special about most places of business, but there are notable exceptions. The campus of the household goods company S.C. Johnson contains three Frank Lloyd Wright buildings. Companies won’t want to drain the corporate coffers to create architectural masterpieces, but a little thought devoted to what distinguishes the [...]

In recent months, the American automobile industry has been stunned by quarterly losses in the billions. But, should they have been?

From what I’ve learned while producing the documentary Leading with Kindness, it seems to me that if the big three automakers (and other major American companies too) had been guided by values rather than [...]

While people generally recognize that a leader’s emotional intelligence factors into that person’s leadership style, most are reluctant to judge it as being as important as analytical ability, decision-making skills, or proficiency in execution. Such emotions as compassion, empathy, and kindness are often dismissed as unquantifiable in their impact on organizations or are mistaken for [...]

       Most of us can conjure images of the nice guy who exudes selflessness and warmth. But if one were to exclusively focus on those attributes apart from the service to which these traits may be put, the essence of a kind leader would be lost. In the absence of any clear functional [...]

“Leading with Kindness” is a research-based book supported by evidence from scholarly reports, interviews with renowned leaders and our own observations. Our starting point was to examine interview data for common themes and to superimpose that information onto what we know about organizations – and then to make adjustments as needed. In the end, what [...]