Leading With Compassion Has Research-Backed Benefits

Metadata

• Author: [[Stephen Trzeciak,
  Anthony Mazzarelli,
  Emma Seppälä]]
• Full Title: Leading With Compassion Has Research-Backed Benefits
• Category: #articles
• Document Tags: leadership
• URL: https://hbr.org/2023/02/leading-with-compassion-has-research-backed-benefits

Highlights

• Researchers define compassion as an emotional response to another’s struggles that involves an authentic desire to help. It’s distinctly different from a closely related word: empathy. Empathy is the sensing, feeling, detecting, and understanding component, but compassion goes beyond empathy by also taking responsive action. Think of it like this: empathy + action = compassion (View Highlight)