Steve LowiszFounder of Guide, Don’t Drive™ Leadership | Keynote Speaker |

Kind vs. Nice: The One Distinction Every Leader Must Know #LeadershipMindset #PeopleFirstLeadership

21 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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A leader explains why kindness and niceness aren't the same thing. Being nice can lower performance standards and hurt your team. Kindness means holding people to high expectations while still caring about them.

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What's the difference between kind and nice? How do you operate as a leader kind? How do you operate as a leader nice? What's the difference day to day? This is a big issue because it ties into bar, it ties into expectation, it ties into everything. Do you want to be kind or do you want to be nice as a leader? Being nice is not a requirement for leadership. Being kind, because nice can get you in trouble and it drops the bar. Kind keeps the bar high.