The late Rita Person said a famous line in her TED Talk, “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.”

And research backs that up (see According To New Research, Rita Pierson Was More Right Than Not When She Said, “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.”).

I was reminded of it when reading The NY Times piece, The 3 leadership lessons an NBA coach learned from billion-dollar CEOs.  I highlighted a quote from it in the textbox that seemed to echo what Person said.

I know some people are critical of those perspectives.  I just wouldn’t want to take a class with, or coached by, them……