Primal Leadership

And initially in his research, he talked primarily about the role of empathy, which is incredibly important.

But since he published that seminal work in Harvard Business Review, and he and Richard Boyatzis published their book, Primal Leadership, other work has been coming out that makes an important differentiation between compassion and empathy.

So this week's readiness goal is ready to detect in yourself, am I feeling empathy or am I feeling compassion? And we'll help you know what those differences are.

So many of you may have heard of the downside of empathy or compassion because they're usually used interchangeably.

So we take in that empathetic moment and we can transform it into compassion in order to help the other person.

Okay, so in summary, compassion needs something to focus on and empathy helps you find it.

To use some of the words of Richard Boyatzits and team in their book, Primal Leadership, without resonance, without feeling with, compassion can be aimed at what you imagine the other person feels, but you might be off target.

And another researcher who I haven't mentioned yet, William Icke's work on empathic accuracy says, treats this as a measurable skill.