Empathy and motivation
Simon Sinek shares some challenging and provocative messages for leaders! Good reframes here.
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Six steps to improve your emotional intelligence, by Ramona Hacker
This talk by Ramona Hacker is a nice perspective on emotional intelligence. It’s great that she identifies the negative connotations that “emotional” has. She is a big proponent of journaling and Brené Brown. The three…
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, talks empathy and business
This interview with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, is worth a watch. He is talking about leadership and the important role that empathy has played in his life and his position as a management. From…
Visual intelligence for emotional intelligence
In 2016 Amy Herman published her book, Visual Intelligence: Sharpen your Perception, Change Your Life. It is based on her seminar, “The Art of Perception,” which she delivers to a wide-range of professionals. When I…
Advice for distributed teams, hosted by Matt Mullenweg
When Automattic launched years ago they had team members spread across several countries. Today they have even more team members working across even more countries. In the years that have gone by, WordPress has grown…
How a humanities degree will serve you in a disruptive economy
I don’t know why we call them “soft skills.” They’re certainly not easy to learn, although they are as valuable and necessary as the skills doctors use in surgery, bankers use to assess risk and…
Is Your Emotional Intelligence Authentic, or Self-Serving?
Plenty of research has documented manipulative misuses of emotional intelligence — the intentionally subtle regulating of one’s emotions to engineer responses from others that might not be in their best interest. Given that most people aren’t sociopaths,…
13 Signs of High Emotional Intelligence | Inc.com
5. You show authenticity. Authenticity doesn’t mean sharing everything about yourself, to everyone, all of the time. It does mean saying what you mean, meaning what you say, and sticking to your values and principles…
Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Empathy Among Health Care Professionals: A Review of the Literature: Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy: Vol 20, No 3
(2014). Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Empathy Among Health Care Professionals: A Review of the Literature. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 95-108. Source: Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Empathy Among Health Care Professionals: A…
Empathy toolkit, as part of a design course
IDEO does cool work, and here they highlight design principles, including empathy…
Empathy in design
Empathy is an important part of the design process…