Care is the fundamental leadership attribute and is at the core of our economy
Taking care of the common good, all living beings, including oneself and the planet is at the center of healthy societies, systems, and humanity. This attribute is considered the strongest leadership quality: leadership and success are no longer centered on hierarchy, strength, and competition but on caring, empathy, wellbeing, collaboration, and enabling environments for others to lead change.
Care work is valued, recognized as fundamental in our societies, incentivized, to ensure decent living and a healthy workforce, and re-distributed accordingly. Care work is therefore represented and perceived as a dignified role, worth having and sharing. Care work is revolutionary, and as such, it is desirable and respectful for everyone to carry responsibility, it is something to be proud of and represented as a key skill to success, leadership, and power. All human beings have a stake in care work and women are not being appointed as primary caregivers by default, unless this is their conscious choice to be.
Care transforms power into responsibility, and responsibility into power.
Ashoka