Can you build an organization on love?

“In every situation, you must lead with your real self, because if you’re going to be on the leading edge of management, you sometimes must be on the emotional edge as well.”
James Autry (author of Servant Leadership)

Words like “emotion” and “love” are not part of our mainstream leadership vocabulary. So I want to ask you, can you build an organization on love?

24-7 work – Why do we do it?

7:10pm on a Thursday evening. My brain says it’s time to stop for the day. You know the feeling – it’s harder to express yourself, maybe not so easy to hold three or four balls in the air at once. Studies have shown that after about 9 hours of work, software developers may be introducing more bugs into the code than they are adding value. All of us know what the equivalent feels like in our world.