Ying and Yang, Eros & Agape, Inside & Outside, Profit & Contribution…
Power & Love?
Are you still listening?
It’s funny how a word can awaken so many of our preprogramming. Adam Kahane wrote an interesting book on Power and Love that is extremely relevant to Leadership. He has found a generative and degenerative side of both of these dimensions and does a nice job of explaining how whole, mature leadership is a combination and/or cooperation between the two drives. Both and again it seems.
Here’s a video of a speech he gave at the RSA a while back: