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Compassionate Leadership
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Compassionate Leadership

by Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter, Marissa Afton, Moses Mohan
January 2022
Beginner
224 pages
4h 53m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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Connect with Empathy, Lead with Compassion

Tania Singer is a celebrated neuroscientist and the head of the Social Neuroscience Lab of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany. She is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on empathy and compassion. One of Singer’s most profound discoveries came when she performed a series of brain scans on Matthieu Ricard, a well-known Buddhist monk. For the study, Ricard was strapped into an fMRI machine and asked to imagine the suffering of orphaned children. In previous brain imaging experiments on empathy done by Singer, this type of witnessing the suffering of others and empathizing with it activated the same affect-related brain areas as activated when feeling actual physical pain in oneself. ...

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ISBN: 9781647820749