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America’s Loneliness Epidemic: A Hidden Systemic Risk to Organizations

Michael Lee Stallard

From a biological standpoint, social connection is a primal human need. These advantages add up to a powerful competitive advantage. Mayo Clinic’s intentionality and commitment is evident in a program called COMPASS (COlleagues Meeting to Promote and Sustain Satisfaction).

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Moving on from ROI to ROE, a Return on Empathy

Strategy Driven

When businesses look beyond the rational data, and into the meaning behind their customers’ feelings, and behaviors, they will recognize the human needs that drive decision making. Control, one of the six core emotional needs I discuss in Empathetic Marketing , fuels our motivations in every aspect of our lives.

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What It Takes to Be a Great Employer

Harvard Business Review

In the corporate world, however, engagement has come to signify just the opposite: some blend of an employee's commitment, passion, focus, motivation, morale and job satisfaction. Forty percent are "enrolled," meaning capable but not fully committed, and 40 percent were disenchanted and disengaged.