Lead with Grace, Not Cancellation

A note to young leaders.

On cancel culture.

Don’t cancel people – except in the most extreme circumstances, and even then, provisionally.

Get off your high horse. “There are few if any issues where all the truth and all the right and all the angels are on one side” – so said John F. Kennedy, in his book, Profiles in Courage.

Surely we can disagree and still be friends.

That’s what the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, believed: “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

Debate, disagree but remain as friends.

If others should draw a circle and put you out – go ahead and draw a bigger circle, and put them in.