2 » ZERO-FLUFF ZONE What Is Self-Compassionate Leadership?

You don’t want to beat yourself up for beating yourself up in the vain hope that it will somehow make you stop beating yourself up.

KRISTIN NEFF, Self-Compassion

Early in Sam Ramji’s career, he climbed the ranks at one of the biggest global software corporations until, as a senior director, he was offered a position as general manager. As part of this new offer, he received a 360 assessment—are you sensing a trend here? Sam received the same comprehensive feedback about his performance and areas of needed improvement that deeply affected Dan Harris and me.

While some of the feedback was positive, Sam also learned that his team members thought he held others to a higher standard than ...

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