Empathy in leadership is one of the most important factors influencing workplaces today. A lack of empathy in leadership can have dramatic consequences for staff and teams, leading to behaviour that makes the workplace unpleasant.
Given that one of the most common reasons people leave their jobs is because of their bosses, it stands to reason that a lack of empathy in leadership may be behind many of these resignations.
Why empathy in leadership matters?…
NYU Stern | The Evolution Institute Darwin’s Business: New Evolutionary Thinking About Cooperation, Groups, Firms, and Societies “The Empathy Problem” David …See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion
This story nicely illustrates the phenomenon of selective empathy. The word “empathy” came into the English language in the early 20th century as a translation of the German word “Einfuhlung,” which means “feeling into.&rd…
President Bill Clinton—who invented the role of the president as “Empath in Chief”—is the great exemplar of both the strengths and the weaknesses of political empathy. In domestic politics, “I feel your pain” worked …
“Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person’s feelings and of one’s own reactions. The appropriate reaction may not be to cry when another person cries, but to reassure them, or even to leave …
