Are You An Empathetic Leader?

Upon reading the first sentence in an email sent by a gentleman, I know it had me bursting into laughter! His message states that a recent study conducted by the University of Cambridge reveals that women have superior empathy over men.

The laughter was about my question, Why Now?’ spending so many years in the corporate environment. Situations in the corporate arena that could benefit from a dose of empathy (then and now) are non-existent. For the most part, management could care less about employees, especially the females on their teams, which plays into our Blog title, ‘Are you an empathetic leader?’