JEFF WEINER LINKEDIN STOCK CRASH REVIEW HOW TO

Jeff said something that really resonate with me about why compassionate leadership is so important. 'We need to get out of our own head and understand the other person's perspective'

JEFF WEINER LINKEDIN STOCK CRASH REVIEW HOW TO

He spoke about conflicts that we all have in the work place and how if you come from a position of compassion you will try to see beyond your own perspective of the conflict to try and understand how to make the situation better for the other person. In a business perspective he said it's about putting yourself in the other person's shoes and helping somebody else to achieve an objective. He gave the analogy that you can see a person on a hiking trail that is stuck with a bolder on his or her chest and have empathy for how badly it must feel, but having 'compassion' is finding a way to help get the boulder off! Jeff spoke about the difference between empathy (feeling what another living thing feels) and compassion (maintaining enough space and distance between you and another person such that you can do something about they way that they feel). Leadership is such an important topic and a word often used but seldom given proper reflection about what it truly means. Jeff has become well known for his philosophies of 'compassionate leadership' that borrow from the teachings of the Dalai Lama and apply life lessons to business. The talk was really composed of three distinct sections: Compassionate Leadership, Leading in a Public Era (where political views become fair game) and The Future of Work (given the impact of AI and automation). It's a very informative talk so I hope you'll watch the video embedded below but I've also got the quick summary below. Jeff Weiner, the CEO of LinkedIn, recently sat down for a fireside chat with Jeff Berman at the Upfront Summit, a gathering in Los Angeles of many of the top technology entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in the country.

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