Care
The quiet ground of power and trust: showing up genuinely concerned for the other’s future.
Care is easy to dismiss as soft. It is in fact the ground beneath power and trust. To care is to be genuinely oriented to another person’s concerns and future, not as a tactic, but as a stance.
People can feel the difference instantly between someone managing them and someone who cares about what matters to them. Almost nothing real, in leadership or in love, moves without it.
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