Does this sound familiar?  As a professional Learning and Development Consultant, I have been involved in my fair share of Leadership Development Solutions and time and again I see excellent learning solutions delivering mixed results. There is no doubt that leadership skills can be learned, but authentic leadership requires a fundamental shift of mind and heart.  For me, Care is the single most important value a leader can have. The problem is that many leaders allow their focus to be entirely on the bottom line. If all we care about is money, then the decisions we make as leaders will be fundamentally flawed.  I am not saying that the bottom line is not important. Business exists to make profit for the shareholders and it is in the interest of the staff that the organisation does well because it pays their salary. What I am saying is that when the focus is ONLY on the money, people will be sacrificed for profit and in the long term the entire organisation loses.  I have personally seen a poor leader take a thriving company and run it into the ground in two years because of a single focus on profit and a lack of care for people. When you care about the people who work for you, then you care about the profit from a different perspective. You understand the interdependency between the organisation and people. The decisions you make, will take into account how people will be impacted. I am suggesting that perhaps a lower bottom line but fundamentally healthy and engaged staff in the long term is a superior outcome vs. going for the best bottom line you can and losing your people.