If you’re interested in hiring more empathetic workers – you’d likely also be interested in new research that tracks empathy neurons in people’s brains with startling revelations.
Imagine workers with a keen skill to spot and support your firm’s vision. As
if they read your mind, for instance, they’d put themselves in your own shoes. Research is closer to seeing and explaining how we read other people’s minds … and why some feel empathy for many. Could it change the climate at your firm?
Recently discovered mirror neurons … revealed in functional MRI technology … is yielding empathetic traits inside the human brain. Why does it matter?
If you could use an employee to resonate with your leaders emotionally … check out Dr. Marco Iacoboni’s presentation just given to the annual Society for Neuroscience in
Can you imagine having the ability to gather empathetic teams who perform designs with the work of art and market them with the accuracy of science? Follow the recorded actions of these 286 individual neurons identified … and watch empathy’s wonder work as never seen before. What do you think?
What a wonderful and informative post, Ellen. The mirror neurons research has been a set of faint signals on my radar. Thanks for the helpful pointers.
Posted by: Wally Bock | November 13, 2007 11:26 AM | Permalink to Comment