Does kindness get in the way of success?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221124-does-kindness-get-in-the-way-of-success

Would you rather be loved or right?

Are mean bosses more successful?

Does diversity and inclusion work?

Or do you succeed by being stressful?

Is kindness here to save the day?

According to psychometrics

You’re unlikely to be unliked 

And to also be effective

Kind bosses mean that people stay

It’s proven and not subjective

That companies make more money

And their teams better collectives

Positive behavior cascades–

Organizational psychologists

Say workers pay good deeds forward–

Now you know what the knowledge is

Acts of kindness are proactive 

Fix the printer, water the plants

Small acts mean higher performance 

Dogs that eat dogs do not advance

Kindness is a Current Asset

It should be a financial line item

It’s hard to measure like DEI, but

If these make money, why fight ‘em?

Now diversity is controversial–

There are other skills and motivations

But all these dimensions should be measured

To improve the workforce of the nation

If you can measure you can act

And can act for the right reason 

Not a fixed benchmark for us all

But goals that shoot for inclusion

Targets should not be just profits

It’s diversity that matches 

The team, business, and its clients

It is equity that success hatches 

Add kindness to the formula

Measure and improve perception

Fine-tune based on human desires:

Promote Equity Inception

So let’s build a smarter machine

And one that success-calibrates

With equity in and its output too

Then equity will success celebrate 

If Success Powers Equity

And if a virtuous circle is best

Then what goes around comes around

And Equity Powers Success!