Finding the Right Formula to Drive Change

Every leader has been in this position: two trusted advisers give you contradictory counsel on the same decision. One tells you the acquisition is a risk. The other tells you it is the opportunity you have been waiting for. One says the market is moving toward consolidation. The other says it is fragmenting. What you do next defines your judgment as a leader. Do you default to the adviser with the stronger title? The louder voice? Or do you use the disagreement itself as a source of information, asking what each adviser is seeing that the other is not?

As employees, we spend more time in the office than our homes. Despite this fact, there is a significant shortage of empathy in the workplace. What happens to the organisation if this shortage of empathy persists? Alvin Teoh from Leaderonomics shares with us the need for empathy and its effect in the workplace.

This is a quick summary of Simon Sinek's video talk "Great Leaders Eat Last"