Compassionate Leadership

<p><b>Leadership<br>is hard. How can you balance compassion for your people with effectiveness in<br>getting the job done?</b></p><p>A global pandemic economic<br>volatility natural disasters civil and political unrest. From New York to<br>Barcelona to Hong Kong it can feel as if the world as we know it is coming<br>apart. Through it all our human spirit is being tested. Now more than ever <br>it's imperative for leaders to demonstrate compassion.</p><p>But in<br>hard times like these leaders need to make hard decisions--deliver<br>negative feedback make difficult choices that disappoint people and in some<br>cases lay people off. How do you do the hard things that come with the<br>responsibility of leadership while remaining a good human being and bringing<br>out the best in others? Most people think we have to make a binary choice<br>between being a good human being and being a tough effective leader. But this<br>is a false dichotomy. Being human and doing what needs to be done are not<br>mutually exclusive. In truth doing hard things and making difficult decisions<br>is often the most compassionate thing to do.</p><p>As founder and<br>CEO of Potential Project Rasmus Hougaard and his longtime coauthor Jacqueline<br>Carter show in this powerful practical book you must always balance caring for<br>your people with leadership wisdom and effectiveness. Using data from thousands<br>of leaders employees and companies in nearly a hundred countries the authors<br>find that when leaders bring the right balance of compassion and wisdom to the<br>job they foster much higher levels of employee engagement performance <br>loyalty and well-being in their people.</p><p>With rich examples<br>from Netflix IKEA Unilever and many other global companies as well as<br>practical tools and advice for leaders and managers at any level <br><i>Compassionate Leadership</i> is your indispensable guide to<br>doing the hard work of leadership in a human way.</p>