'Nice is about telling people what they want to hear. Kind is about telling people what they need to hear.'
Graham Allcott's back on the podcast and all is well with the world once again. This time he's talking about the transformative power of kindness in the workplace. Many assume that leaders need to belong to Team Screw-Them-All-And-Be-Evil to come out on top, but Graham demonstrates that being kind (which is NOT the same as being 'nice') is is a smart move if you want to be successful too.
There's a deeply personal story behind this which particularly resonated with me: Graham's own experience of the way his son's additional needs create a 'vessel for kindness' all around him. We talk about salted caramel, 'badass' kindness, how leading a course leads to writing a book, why two authors means twice the work, and how this is definitely the last book he'll write.*
We also talk about what writing does for us - we write what we need to read - and why delegating it to AI is a poor strategy. Writers write.
This is a conversation that will make you think, and which I hope will inspire you to be a little kinder, in life and work.
*I for one do not believe this.