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Former Nickelodeon Exec Anne Kreamer: “Rationality Without Empathy Misses Important Problems”


How do you build a “business with feeling?” That’s exactly the question one former Nickelodeon exec tackled in a recent essay for the Harvard Business Review. She took the example of Elizabeth Scharpf, a researcher who took on the issue of absenteeism address “emotion in the workplace.”

“What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school ion developing economies? Illness? Lack of childcare? Minimal professional training? Insufficient infrastructure?… The bottom line id that empathy without rigorous, rational analysis solves no important problems — but rationality without empathy simply misses plenty of important and soluble problems. To be a responsible human and to be a successful entrepreneur requires both, working in tandem.”

Check out the rest of the essay here.

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