Empathy is not an emotion that’s often discussed in business school textbooks. But neuroscientist Chris Berka believes that, properly measured, it can make a management team far better and much more creative.
Berka measured the students’ brainwave activity for empathetic responses. “Those teams that we found the more instances of empathy scored better [by their professor] on creative solutions for the test,” she says. And having at least one team member who measured high levels of empathy provided Berka and her researchers a way to predict who would do well in the exercise.
