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Harvard Business Review Everyday Emotional Intelligence
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Harvard Business Review Everyday Emotional Intelligence

by Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee, Sydney Finkelstein
October 2017
Beginner
384 pages
8h 3m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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CHAPTER 19

What Is Empathy?

by Daniel Goleman

THE WORD “ATTENTION” COMES from the Latin attendere, meaning “to reach toward.” This is a perfect definition of focus on others, which is the foundation of empathy and of an ability to build social relationships—the second and third pillars of emotional intelligence (the first is self-awareness).

Executives who can effectively focus on others are easy to recognize. They are the ones who find common ground, whose opinions carry the most weight, and with whom other people want to work. They emerge as natural leaders regardless of organizational or social rank.

The Empathy Triad

We talk about empathy most commonly as a single attribute. But a close look at where leaders are focusing when they exhibit ...

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ISBN: 9781633694125