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 going to 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 bubblegum 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 realize that candor that corporations love to stand up

was really for a lot of people an 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.

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