Robin Sharma Articles

Please don't tell me being kind and learning to listen and building out your vision and things like working on your character are soft. Nope. They are hard. And that's why so few of us do them.

Anyone can act tough. What takes genuine power is to be open. To care about others. To learn from those around you. To be human.

Same for things like listening and vision and character-building. Getting good at those things takes a ton of courage. Why? Because we need to develop humility and be willing to admit we are far from perfect. And that we need to change. And change is scary. Because it causes us to leave the comfort zone we have always known. And sail out into the blue oceans.

So the soft stuff is really the hard stuff. And the new model of leadership really is all about mastering the skills people in the past judged as soft. And those leaders that cling to the old ways of being will get left behind. By the leaders willing to do what's hard.