Ashish Kothari argues leaders will be remembered for either draining or elevating their people. The mental-health crisis is really a crisis of bad work, caused by broken workplaces. Generator leaders deliberately create environments that nurture health, happiness, and high performance.
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Most leaders will be remembered for one of two reasons: they drained people or they elevated them. Which one will you be? We have a single crisis, and the crisis is the crisis of mental health and, you know, what people are experiencing here. And what I'm gonna say is what we actually have is fundamentally a crisis of bad work. Like, we— because the mental health crisis that people are experiencing is because of broken workplaces. Yeah, yeah. Which are creating suffering, not amplifying flourishing.
So generator leaders are basically leaders who are positively deviant in being able to create workplaces that support health, happiness, and results. Generator is a leader that actively infuses their team with energy, vibrancy, and, uh, health so that they can thrive and unlock their full potential. And I think that's really an important, important thing for leaders to remember.