Empowerment Through Empathetic Leadership
Another theme that ran through the conference was the need for empathy in the game development industry: for your team, for your company, and for your audience. Rami Ismail, co-founder of the Dutch game studio Vlambeer, delivered a keynote on how he learned to change his own approach to leadership through experience and learning the importance of context.
Sue Gerhardt provides a follow-up to the 60 Minutes “Born Good?” program, looking at the challenges in being empathetic outside of familiar social interaction. What I think is much more astonishing is the way that humans have taken these group l…
Over the last decade, the frequency of internet searches for the word “empathy” has more than doubled, while searches for “sympathy” have fallen by around 30% . In a major event, cultural thinker and writer Roman …
The comforting thing is even when we feel lonely, we’re never actually alone. Emotional contagion is, in other words, a form of empathy; it’s the way in which we understand another person’s feelings. Empathy is hugely important; i…
The ability and willingness to listen with empathy is often what sets a leader apart. Hearing words is not adequate; the leader truly needs to work at understanding the position and perspective of the others involved in the conversation.In a rece…
