{"id":10192,"date":"2021-11-15T05:55:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T11:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=10192"},"modified":"2021-10-25T12:12:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T17:12:07","slug":"what-is-empathy-and-why-is-it-so-important-for-great-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/what-is-empathy-and-why-is-it-so-important-for-great-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Empathy, and Why Is It So Important for Great Leaders?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Bill Gates pointed out in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/news\/2014\/june\/gates-commencement-remarks-061514.html\" rel=\"follow\">Stanford commencement speech<\/a>, \u201cIf we&#8217;re going to make our optimism matter to everyone and empower people everywhere, we have to see the lives of those most in need. If we have optimism, but we don&#8217;t have empathy \u2014 then it doesn&#8217;t matter how much we master the secrets of science, we&#8217;re not really solving problems; we&#8217;re just working on puzzles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/352397\">What Is Empathy, and Why Is It So Important for Great Leaders?<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Empathy is the foundation for connecting with others, and connecting with others is an essential part of entrepreneurship. As John Lennon once said, &#8220;A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.&#8221; Entrepreneurs know that reality better than anyone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Bill Gates pointed out in a Stanford commencement speech, \u201cIf we&#8217;re going to make our optimism matter to everyone and empower people everywhere, we have to see the lives of those most in need. If we have optimism, but we don&#8217;t have empathy \u2014 then it doesn&#8217;t matter how much we master the secrets of science, we&#8217;re not really solving problems; we&#8217;re just working on puzzles.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.entrepreneur.com\/content\/3x2\/2000\/1593102726-GettyImages-1075991048.jpg?auto=webp&quality=95&crop=16:9&width=675","fifu_image_alt":"What Is Empathy, and Why Is It So Important for Great Leaders?","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[71,546,45,48,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-10192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-emotional_intelligence","9":"tag-empathy","10":"tag-leadership","11":"tag-mindfulness","12":"tag-thought_leadership"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10195,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10192\/revisions\/10195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}