Kindness Is a Competitive Advantage
(Most Leaders Don’t Know How to Use It)
Hello friend.
Thank you for being here today. There is a bigger conversation taking place on how Soulful Leaders can change the world. Join us here.
Recently, I’ve noticed a lot of you resonating with the work my team and I do on kindness.
Specifically, how to lead kindly without the destructive compromises and people-pleasing that “nice” leadership often entails.
We’ve created something that will help…
What is Kind Leadership?
It doesn’t matter if you lead a company, a classroom, or a family.
Kind Leadership begins wherever you have influence.
At Arable, we coach and create content for leaders who want to lead True, Brave, Kind, and Curious, wherever they are. In other words, for people who want to lead from the soul.
When I first present “Kind” as a core characteristic of leadership to some clients, I’m often met with puzzled expressions. It’s certainly not the language of traditional leadership curricula.
I meet many wonderful people in the work I do, but I find that Kind can be a challenging quality for leaders to articulate (and for some to relate to).
That said, the world’s best leaders—at least the ones who have stood the test of time—embody kindness whether they give that language to it or not.
It’s difficult to retain influence if you make a habit of treating people poorly.
Two leadership styles who live on opposite sides of Kind
On the one side, there are those who hold influence in our world and spend their careers playing power games, manipulating people, and neglecting their responsibility to steward that influence for the good of those they lead.
Almost inevitably, poor character hollows them out over the long haul, and their “success” is shallow, assuming it persists at all.
On the other side, there are leaders (especially inexperienced ones) who prioritize being liked rather than getting results. Unfortunately, these leaders may placate people for a while, but they will never fully realize their purpose while trying to please everyone.
The inability to speak the truth will sabotage their potential.
A lie is destructive, no matter how sweetly spoken.
Kind is not nice. And it is not coercive power either.
It is the calibration of grace and truth.
Support and challenge.
People and performance.
Conflict and Collaboration.
Kind leadership will unlock layers of relationship and influence you never thought possible. It will transform your leadership, ignite your potential, and help you build dreams that are only possible with the help of an exceptional team.
It will give you the tools to relate to others in a way that gets the very best out of them (and champions the best for them).
I have much more to share with you about what Kind is and how you can practice it in your life and in the cultures you lead.
My team and I created a special resource to help you do just that. And we’re giving it away for free:
It’s called the the Kind Leadership Toolkit. It’s a 5-Part Email Course that you can access today—all about how you can cultivate Kind character and replicate that quality in the cultures you lead.
This is the first time I’ve made these tools available in this form to my readers. I genuinely believe our world needs kindness, particularly in the spaces where people are making high-impact decisions.
Our workplaces need it.
Our schools need it.
Our places of worship and community need it.
Our families need it.
We need Kind leaders.
All you need to do is:
Click this link.
Submit a quick form with your name and email.
I will send you the welcoming email to the 5-Part series within 24 hours.
I want to give you the tools to curate a culture of kindness. It’s not something you can impose; it’s something you must become.
In doing so, a transformed character can transform culture.
Sincerely,
Karl
P.S. The toolkit really is free—there’s no secret upsell to something else. I want you to have it because our culture needs Kind leaders. Here’s to you adding one more to the ranks.