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One of the hardest parts about leadership is giving people hard news.
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I've been a CEO, I know.
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Sometimes you have to say that your job isn't here anymore.
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Sometimes you have to tell whole organizations that there's going to be a new structure to things.
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And hard news is, well, it's hard.
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It's very important that leaders understand that that is not a good argument for avoiding hard things.
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now one of the biggest problems that we have is is misunderstanding empathy
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and compassion they're not the same thing empathy is to feel somebody else's pain
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and when you're motivated entirely by empathy it becomes a really hard thing to do to do these difficult things
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and and you might even be handcuffed and unable to do them
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and you'll wait too long when it gets even more damaging to other people compassion is different the greatest leaders are compassionate
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Compassion has four parts to it.
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Understanding a problem, feeling enough of the pain such that you can actually be in the place of the person affected,
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being able to be rational about what needs to be done, and then having the courage to do it.
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That's what it comes down to.
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Being a truly compassionate leader is what people need.
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Their greatest bosses are compassionate, not empathetic.
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And why are they compassionate?
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Because they love people enough to do what actually needs to get done.
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You know what that is?
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That's just leadership at the end of the day.
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Let's say you're in a situation where you need to downsize your employee base by about 20%.
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And that means a bunch of people, including people that you've worked with for years, are actually going to lose their jobs.
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If the only tool in your arsenal is empathy,
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that's going to be overwhelmingly hard and maybe something you're going to put off and that's going to make things worse.
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Compassion is one in which you understand exactly why this needs to be done.
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You put yourself in the place of other people such
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that you can understand what they're going through You have a plan for how you're going to transmit this information
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And actually what you're going to suggest to people who are affected
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And you have the courage to get it done quickly because that's in everybody's interests
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That's fundamentally superior in every way
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Now one quick aside on this
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How do you grease the skids a little bit?
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The Buddhists talk about having a loving -kindness meditation
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I'm a religious person and one of the things
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that I've done is I pray for people before I have to do a hard thing.
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I pray for the people that I'm actually going to affect in this particular way, and I pray for the courage.
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And so whatever your technique is, meditation, visualization, prayer, I would recommend doing that actually before you have the interactions with people as well.
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So don't misunderstand what I've said here.
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I'm not saying not to have empathy.
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I'm saying not to have unaccompanied empathy.
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Empathy is only step number two of four steps.
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And when you shear it off from an understanding of the problem, an understanding of what needs to be done and the courage to do it,
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then it becomes problematic because it's on its own.
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It's an unaccompanied virtue, and as a virtue, it can quickly turn into a vice.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Deliver Hard News with Compassion”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: empathy, compassionate, compassion, courage, pray. Questo video contiene 45 frasi e 570 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 2:58. Chi parla va veloce, circa 192 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 85% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| empathy sostantivo | /ˈɛmpəθi/ | empatia |
| courage sostantivo | /ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/ | coraggio |
| compassion sostantivo | /kəmˈpæʃ.ən/ | compassione |
| compassionate aggettivo | /kəmˈpæʃənət/ | compassionevole |
| pray verbo | /pɹeɪ/ | pregare, orare |
| virtue sostantivo | /ˈvɝt͡ʃu/ | virtù |
| technique sostantivo | /tɛkˈniːk/ | tecnica |
| superior aggettivo | /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/ | superiore, sovraordinato |
| prayer sostantivo | /pɹɛɚ/ | preghiera, orazione |
| arsenal sostantivo | /ˈɑːsənəl/ | arsenale, deposito armi |
| interaction sostantivo | /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/ | interazione |
| rational aggettivo | /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/ | razionale, lucido |
| kindness sostantivo | /ˈkaɪnd.nəs/ | bontà, gentilezza |
| problematic aggettivo | /ˌpɹɑ.bləˈmæt.ɪk/ | ambiguo, questionabile |
| fundamentally avverbio | fondamentalmente, essenzialmente |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| go through verbo | attraversare |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- You know what that is?
- How do you grease the skids a little bit?
- I'm not saying not to have empathy.
- I'm saying not to have unaccompanied empathy.
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | be handcuffed · be done · are affected |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | I've been · you've worked · I've done |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 18 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, I'm, I've. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: empathy /ˈɛmpəθi/, empathetic /ˌɛmpəˈθɛtɪk/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: compassion /kəmˈpæʃ.ən/, compassionate /kəmˈpæʃənət/, meditation /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: compassionate /kəmˈpæʃənət/, superior /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, problematic /ˌpɹɑ.bləˈmæt.ɪk/, overwhelmingly /ˌəʊ.vəˈwɛl.mɪŋ.lɪ/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: courage /ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/, compassionate /kəmˈpæʃənət/, technique /tɛkˈniːk/, kindness /ˈkaɪnd.nəs/, problematic /ˌpɹɑ.bləˈmæt.ɪk/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: compassion /kəmˈpæʃ.ən/, compassionate /kəmˈpæʃənət/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/, problematic /ˌpɹɑ.bləˈmæt.ɪk/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come empathy, courage, compassion.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.