Do Sensitive People Make Good Leaders?

15 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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Short spoken commentary arguing that sensitive, emotional people can be good leaders. The speaker affirms sensitivity is compatible with effective leadership when paired with boundaries and the ability not to take disagreements personally; emphasizes empathy as a key leadership strength and warns that becoming defensive or taking pushback personally undermines leadership.

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If you are sensitive and emotional, can you be a good leader? And the answer is, of course. Of course, part of good leadership is about having empathy and about understanding emotion. Now the question is, how are you defining sensitive? Like, do you get upset every time somebody disagrees with you? If they push back, do you get defensive? Then you're going to have to work on those skills. But if you have the capacity for emotion and you can learn not to take everything personally, then yes, you can absolutely be a great leader. In fact, I want more leaders to be sensitive and have emotions. So, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.