Lisa Borders on Enlightened Leadership: Competence, Confidence, and Compassion | Mick Unplugged

And then compassion, of course, is all about empathy and walking in someone else's shoes and understanding where they are in their ability to communicate with you, collaborate with you, or understand what you're talking about. As my grandfather, the preacher would say, you got to use two ears and one mouth that God gave you for a reason and listen twice as much as you talk. Not only create but cultivate and curate those three attributes, competence, confidence and compassion. There are many other skills, but if you use those as the fundamentals, we talk about this in sports. Get your footwork right before you try to do a hook shot right before you try to do a jump shot, or before you try to drive the lane, get your footwork right. That's fundamentals. Being strong. So the same thing is true, in my view, for those three attributes as fundamentals of what I term enlightened leadership.