Chapter 7

Collaboration, Cooperation and Kindness, Not Competition

A kind leader can make a world of difference.

Linda Michelle Cohen

Discussion – Beyond Win–Win: A World of Kindness

One of the best things about kind leadership is that when leaders act, react and lead by kind example, the outcome is more kindness as their followers imitate those kind behaviors in the situations where they wear their Leader Hats. Whether kind leadership starts at work, at home or somewhere else in the community, it doesn’t just stay there, it spreads. And all of the positive benefits spread as well: a focus on the ‘means’, instead of the ‘ends’, the creation of trusting personal relationships and wider circles of trust, and the practice of considering others ...

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