Reinventing the Boss: Overcoming the Empathy By-Pass

Business leaders may have started the New Year with good intentions and a list of resolutions to mend their ways, but do they have what it takes? The skills typically required to deliver the numbers and appease the board and shareholders are no longer enough. For long-term career success, senior executives require empathy to understand how to work with others. Developing neuroplasticity – the ability to tap into different parts of the brain – is helping top leaders to disconnect their hardwired behaviours and transform themselves and their organisations. It's no quick fix but it could be the key to reinventing the boss.