Marie Miyashiro, author and facilitator, says empathy can best be fostered if we examine our needs and the needs of others, and how they're expressed in the way we communicate.

When a team member seems off their game, the most powerful response a leader can offer is not correction, but connection.

1. Empathy can distort your judgement Research from Yale University shows how empathy can distort your way of thinking, write the authors.

I also want to get into writing novels the way I write short stories, which is to finish one, put it away, take one out, start another one. And so that would be really hard if you're writing 350 ...