Lauren Card Live

What might this have to do with corporate culture and values of successful companies? How does it relate to Effective Leadership? What about teamwork? Can you relate the definition above to feelings you’ve had for teammates on a great team or for a leader by whom you’d been inspired?

I don’t think “love” is considered a corporate word by most, but ask yourself this: What is the quality I experience in a person at work, client or teammate that I feel most warmly towards and with whom I feel most safe? Does your answer have more to do with his or her intellectual properties or with something else?

It’s been proven that productivity is higher when people like and respect each other which is the aspect of love that I think applies in the business world. Love, it is easy to argue, would be a beneficial ingredient to include in business, just because it seems right, because it is the opposite of hate, because it is positive not negative. But business will never absorb love just because it has positive connotations; it will be adopted only if it is seen to be good for business, good at improving profitability. I think that love has everything to do with business, that business is enhanced, meaning that long-term profitability is enhanced, with the introduction of love.

This clearly requires a definition of “love” in this context. By “love” I mean kindness, consideration, positive feelings, clear interest in the other’s well being, generosity of spirit, compassion and that critical ingredient, fairness.

When these qualities are introduced to any business people work harder, egos are brought under control, collaboration and cooperation blossom, productivity and creativity emerge. Long-term profitability is going to improve.

so…show me the love!
L.

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