You aren’t literally a hater-leader. (I hope.) But you may do things that feel like hate.
Leaders who focus on fixing people feel like haters to their victims.
Rejection feels like hate.
Development helps people grow. Fixing treats them like defects.
If you have a team of pigs, fall in love with bacon.
Begin with the team you have, not the one you wish you had.
It doesn’t matter how badly you want eggs, if you’re surrounded by pigs.
4 Principles of the Pig:
#1. If you want eggs, hire chickens.
Weakness is an asset.
Don’t wait until you have it all together to lead. You’re disqualified from leadership if you don’t have weaknesses.
Make the most of frailties.
Your struggle is your laboratory.
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People say forgiving feels like giving in, but the world collapses when every interaction becomes a courtroom.
Immaturity always stands up for itself. But strength isn’t loud. Power isn’t demanding.
For example, open-hearted kindness requires confidence. The best insecurity can do is manipulate people with fake generosity. Greed hides behind fairness.
A one-string banjo doesn’t sound happy. Overconfidence in one strength brings leaders down.
Visionaries fail when they can’t get stuff done. Relationship builders fail when they don’t have tough conversations. Doers without empathy build disengaged teams.
Leaders fail by leaning too hard on one strength.
The easiest life imaginable is working at what comes naturally.
You enrich life when you follow inclinations you were born with.
But be warned, some innate inclinations harm us.
Leadership is encouraging people to do things that come naturally.
