To be kind is to be friendly, generous and considerate. Other positive characteristics branch off from kindness: empathy, sincerity, thoughtfulness, acceptance, helpfulness. Kindness may be among your most powerful leadership tools.
Dietrick Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a German pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident. He was opposed to Hitler’s genocide of the Jews, and ran “underground seminaries” during the war. In 1943 he was imprisoned by the Gestapo. Bonhoeffer was executed in the spring of 1945.