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Fear is a motivator in the micro short term. It is the most disgusting weapon that a human can use if you don't know how to solve this

Figure it out

I think about leadership from this concept of gray not black or white most leaders are gonna be either black or white

It's not empire of honey. It's honey empire. Nothing works unless there's humanity the number one job of a leader

Is to eliminate fear the reason we call it the honey empire when we talk about leadership is you get more out of honey than vinegar

You may get short term wins in vinegar, but you will not get sustained wins with vinegar

Then there's the opposite side the me that everything's bubble gum and rainbows and you're putting it all on you

But you're quietly building resentment you have to work on what I've worked on for the last five years

Which is the ability to deliver what we call kind candor but I realized that candor that

Corporations love to stand up was really for a lot of people and excuse to be mean an

excuse to

Control someone that they're managing so that they don't propel you know how much human psychology goes into a manager that

Consciously knows the person they're managing is more talented than them. There's a subconscious

Repression going on there because they don't want it to happen

So candor all of a sudden became manipulation

So candor I always really struggled with somehow some way because I was working on myself

I sold myself on the concept of this term called kind candor and it's transformed our company because what was happening for us was

You know, I'm the CEO of the company and the founder the company

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