The Hidden Damage of Fear-Based Leadership on Your Team

We know from all the research that fear, when we are wired, when we are operating from fear, we don't have access to creativity, we don't have access to innovation, we don't give the best ideas. We are constantly in a scarcity mode. And yet people lean more into that. Rather than saying, hey, let me create an environment to literally help people go from below the line to above the line. Let's create hope rather than fear. Let's think about possibilities and abundance, what we have. So really powerful move.

I would just add, I don't think you can have really strong relationship with your people when you lead by fear. I think it's a transaction. People might stick around, but it's very transactional. No one's going the extra mile. No one's really feeling vested in success.