{"id":2163,"date":"2010-08-18T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:41:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:41:53","slug":"what-leaders-need-at-work-and-it-starts-with-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/what-leaders-need-at-work-and-it-starts-with-love\/","title":{"rendered":"What leaders need at work — and it starts with love"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a precursor to this post, can we first agree that Harvard Business Review is not some crunchy granola publication that wants you to be more self actualized by hugging and meditating?
\nNo, Harvard Business Review is the well-respected publication that speaks to the pressing issues of business leaders who want to be more successful.
\nThat’s important because I think the following will surprise some people — even more so when you consider the source.
\nHarvard Business Review<\/a> recently ran a piece about what transformational leaders need to succeed.
\nNumber #1 was to love and be loved:<\/p>\n

First, and arguably most important, is the need to love and be loved<\/strong>. It sounds touchy-feely, but people who are not both receiving and giving love \u2014 and by love I mean focused concern and action directed at another exclusively for that person’s good \u2014 cannot be fully healthy, biologically and psychologically. We usually think of love as beyond the pale in the work-a-day world, but the transformational leader vividly understands that tough-minded caring is essential to leading and developing a powerful, fully expressed workforce.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rounding out the list:<\/p>\n