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Love Tough - Jon Gordon

  I believe in tough love. If you are a leader, manager, coach, teacher or parent, caring about someone often requires you to challenge and push them to improve, grow and reach their full potential.   Even the best athletes in the world have a coach to push them. But for tough love to work, love must come first.   We must love tough to bring out the best in those we lead!   If people know you care about them they will be more receptive to you pushing them. On the other hand if you put tough before love you're more likely to face resistance.   As Andy Stanley says, "Rules without relationship leads to rebellion."   The old dictator style (tough without love) of leadership no longer works. Having spent time with a number of professional and college sports teams it's clear that even athletes who seem to have it all want to know that their coach cares about them. The best coaches love their players and their players know it and play h...

Who is hindering YOUR growth ?

One day all the employees reached the office and they saw a big advice on the door on which it was written: “Yesterday the person who has been hindering your growth in this company passed away. We invite you to join the funeral”. In the beginning, they all got sad for the death of one of their colleagues, but after a while they started getting curious to know who was that man who hindered the growth of his colleagues and the company itself. The excitement in the gym was such that security agents were ordered to control the crowd within the room. The more people reached the coffin, the more the excitement heated up. Everyone thought: “Who is this guy who was hindering my progress? Well, at least he died!” One by one the thrilled employees got closer to the coffin, and when they looked inside it they suddenly became speechless. They stood nearby the coffin, shocked and in silence, as if someone had touched the deepest part of their soul. There was a mirror insid...