Mark Evans DM argues that leaders don't need to be liked, using his high school football coach as an example of someone who was disliked at the time but earned respect later. Real leadership means mentoring others and sometimes giving tough love, grounded in your organization's core values.
Leadership doesn't always mean you're their buddy. Leadership is their mentor. You're guiding them through the path of least resistance to help them. And you got to sometimes have tough love inside of leadership. And my mentors in my life, I remember being in high school, my football coach, he was tough as nails, screaming at me, telling me to do more, push harder. Guess what? I didn't have to like him in the moment, but I respect the hell out of him. And I'm still talking about him today, 23 years later. So don't always think you're going to be the coolest person on the block by being a leader because you know you're leading with the proper intentions. Obviously. Starting care 360 using all these culture core values that we're talking about.
