Leaders With Empathy Do More Than Sympathize

There Is A Newly Coined Word In The English Language For The Moment When The Person We're With Whips Out Their Blackberry Or Answers That Cell Phone, And All Of A Sudden We Don't Exist. The Word Is 'pizzled': It's A Combination Of Puzzled And Pissed Off.

Once Shoppers Become Empowered, We Will Facilitate Industries Thinking In Completely New Terms; For Example, Making Products That Are Totally Biodegradable.

Our Brain Comes Hard-wired With An Urge To Play, One That Hurls Us Into Sociability. A Child's Play Both Demands And Creates Its Own Safe Space, One In Which She Can Confront Threats, Fears, And Dangers, But Always Come Through Whole. Play Offers A Child A Natural Way To Manage Feared Separations Or Abandonment, Rendering Them Instead Opportunities For Mastery And Self-discovery.

Simple Inattention Kills Empathy, Let Alone Compassion. So The First Step In Compassion Is To Notice The Other's Need. It All Begins With The Simple Act Of Attention.

As A Freshman In College, I Was Having A Lot Of Trouble Adjusting. I Took A Meditation Class To Handle Anxiety. It Really Helped. Then As A Grad Student At Harvard, I Was Awarded A Pre-doctoral Traveling Fellowship To India, Where My Focus Was On The Ancient Systems Of Psychology And Meditation Practices Of Asia.