I’ve been thinking a lot about leadership lately. "If I’m given the opportunity to lead, what kind of leader do I want to be?" When I sit with that question, two pairs of ideas keep coming up for me: Kindness and integrity Self-awareness and empathy They sound simple, but they’re not. Each pair has a tension built into it. Kindness without avoidance, intergrity without harshness. To me, integrity is about alignment between what I say I value and what I actually do, especially