text:  Yep, and at some point, an effective leader, to get people to follow them, it can't just always be a force of will. At some point, you have to show empathy. I mean, one of the wisest decisions God made in my life is making sure I had daughters before I ever had a son. If that order was inverted, man, I would have been a terrible dad to him. I needed the daughters to soften me up, to prepare me to raise a man, okay? Mm-hmm.