KKR has identified a decisive success factor when rolling out employee ownership and employee engagement programs at portfolio companies, according to Pete Stavros, global co-head of private equity.

Anna Lacey, the new clinical director of the Community Mental Health Hub in Sonoma, has an impressive professional background in the mental health field, but her personal touch with clients is perhaps ...

The right temporoparietal junction is causally involved in how we perceive and understand other people’s pain. When you see someone else fall off their bike, you can feel the other person’s pain ...

Did you know that our work colleagues can make a huge difference in helping us get through tough times? The problem is, so many of us are too burned out right now to offer our co-workers the support ...

Empathy is more than a buzzword—it’s a foundational skill. The ability to recognize and understand others’ emotions—and to respond in ways that are constructive and caring—can help adolescents build ...

As shocking as Musk’s views are, however, they are far from unique. On the one hand, there is the familiar and widespread conservative critique of “bleeding heart” liberals as naive or overly ...

Large group of business people sitting on a meeting in the office and having problems. Empathy isn’t a nice to have anymore; it’s a business essential. In a volatile market, organizations that ...

Empathy is the ability to recognize and understand what another person, animal, or even a fictional character is thinking or feeling. It is an attempt to identify with someone else's situation, ...

Before looking at the way empathy has recently been under attack, it helps to understand what it is and what it isn’t. Professor Gad Saad calls empathy a “noble emotion,” but it’s not an emotion. A ...

It was once considered a virtue. Why do some people now think it’s a bad thing? Credit...Photo illustration by Ricardo Tomas Supported by By Jennifer Szalai There’s an arresting quotation that ...

In an interview this year with Joe Rogan, Elon Musk quipped that “the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” He seemed to blame it, in part, for the decline of America’s cultural ...

As Americans anxiously await the final results of a presidential election that remains too close to call, one thing appears abundantly clear: We still haven't learned to reliably predict how the ...