Empathy in Action

Empathy in Action

Aug. 18, 2010 by

Years ago I splurged on a course at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where, among other things, I learned that leadership is a constant tug between assertiveness and empathy. Assertiveness without empathy, I learned, leads to conflict with followers and

Stage Fright Vanquished

Stage Fright Vanquished

Aug. 5, 2010 by

This from Body Odd: Before now, those with performance jitters have had to contend with the nausea and the nerves on their own, or take beta blockers to battle the symptoms.  New research has come up with another way to

Two kinds of selling

Two kinds of selling

Aug. 4, 2010 by

I spent a day working on sales messages and presentation of those messages with a sales force, except the sales force was divided in two—half were an outside field force, and half were inside sales. We discovered that it was