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Should your customers pay more simply because you can't run an efficient team?
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Should your shareholders earn lower returns because you can't bring yourself to set a high standard for performance?
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Should the communities you operate in suffer the impacts of your poorly run business
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because you don't hold people to account for results?
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Empathy is critical if you want to connect with your people and build trust, but you can't allow your empathy to turn into sympathy.
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In the checklist of desirable leadership attributes, empathy is right up there with integrity, humility, and authenticity.
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Empathy is just understanding another person's feelings, being able to put yourself in their shoes and see the world through their eyes.
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But the word empathy has been hijacked in recent years, and now it seems to be virtually interchangeable with the word sympathy.
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Now this is dangerous, because sympathy goes way beyond understanding.
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Sympathy is about feeling sorry for someone.
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So instead of just recognising their feelings, you jump down in the hole with them and try to help them.
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This might be the appropriate response for family and friends, but as a leader, you can't allow empathy to morph into sympathy.
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If you do, you're going to start making concessions for certain people.
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You'll treat them differently.
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lower the standard.
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You'll put their individual wants and needs ahead of the team or the organisation.
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The difference between empathy and sympathy might seem subtle, but when it comes to performance, it's everything.
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Everyone has a life outside of work.
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Everyone goes through difficult times.
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And yes, everyone deserves your compassion and your understanding.
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But if that stops you from making the right decisions, decisions that are in the best interest of the wider team, then that's a problem.
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And it's becoming increasingly hard to avoid the sympathy spiral.
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The whole people before profits movement has skewed our thinking.
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The people that that bumper stick and slogan refers to are of course your employees.
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Now that translates into, put your employees' interests ahead of the company's interests.
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Sounds noble right?
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But it's simply an excuse for weak leaders to avoid accountability under the pretense of caring.
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The people get what they want and you get to feel good about yourself.
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But what about the other people that you're there to serve?
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Should your customers pay more simply because you can't run an efficient team?
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Should your shareholders earn lower returns because you can't bring yourself to set a high standard for performance?
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Should the communities you operate in suffer the impacts of your poorly run business
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because you don't hold people to account for results?
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Empathy is critical if you want to connect with your people and build trust, but you You can't allow your empathy to turn into sympathy.
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This is the difference between strong leaders and weak leaders.
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A strong leader with high empathy is incredibly effective for both the company and the individuals they lead.
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They have understanding, compassion and connection.
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But it doesn't stop them from making tough decisions, holding a line on the standard and producing results.
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A weak leader with high empathy is disastrous.
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Their compassion turns into capitulation.
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The best leaders have boundless empathy, but they're also strong enough to hold the lines that they need to hold because they're important not to cross.
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If you want to go deeper on how to stop empathy from becoming sympathy, have a listen to episode 135 of the No Bullshit Leadership podcast, When Empathy Becomes Sympathy.
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We'll leave a link in the show notes.
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I really hope you enjoyed this moment and that gives you that extra little spark to be a no bullshit leader.

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  • Put yourself in their shoes – sich in jemanden hineinversetzen (ein unverzichtbarer Ausdruck für Empathie)
  • Hold people to account – Menschen für Ergebnisse verantwortlich machen (wichtig für klare Führung)
  • Make concessions – Konzessionen machen (eine Gefahr, wenn Sympathie zu stark wird)
  • Put ... ahead of – ... vor ... stellen (z. B. "put their needs ahead of the team")
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