Balancing Accountability and Caring in Leadership

I was recently listening to this amazing podcast interview of Lee Ellis by Jocko Willink (About Lee Ellis), and they talked about the leadership tension in balancing accountability (demanding performance) and caring (supporting your people), which was powerful to hear within the context Lee’s 5.5-year Prisoner of War experience! Many books talk about this tension, such as Jocko’s Dichotomy of Leadership and Kim Scott’s Radical Candor. (I appreciate Blinkist audio book summary service for being able to quickly review key points from books like these)

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