Women, On Average, Tend To Be More

Empathy Represents The Foundation Skill For All The Social Competencies Important For Work.

A Leader Tuned Out Of His Internal World Will Be Rudderless; One Blind To The World Of Others Will Be Clueless; Those Indifferent To The Larger Systems Within Which They Operate Will Be Blindsided.

Western Business People Often Don't Get The Importance Of Establishing Human Relationships.

Educators, Long Disturbed By Schoolchildren's Lagging Scores In Math And Reading, Are Realizing There Is A Different And More Alarming Deficiency: Emotional Literacy. And While Laudable Efforts Are Being Made To Raise Academic Standards, This New And Troubling Deficiency Is Not Being Addressed In The Standard School Curriculum. As One Brooklyn Teacher Put It, The Present Emphasis In Schools Suggests That "we Care More About How Well Schoolchildren Can Read And Write Than Whether They'll Be Alive Next Week."

Motivation Aside, If People Get Better At These Life Skills, Everyone Benefits: The Brain Doesn't Distinguish Between Being A More Empathic Manager And A More Empathic Father.