As a leader who wants to make a difference, I was intrigued by the idea of "doing hard things in a human way" as the book's subtitle states. According to the research, I don’t need to either make tough decisions or support my people – I can do both. In fact the book states leaders need to be both to be successful as a leader today.
Lots of great tips, practices and strategies to help me become the leader I want to be.
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Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on June 20, 2022
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The second weak point is the data base of the analysis: Compassionate Leadership belongs in the category Consultant Literature: A consultant or in this case two consultants share their insights with everyone who is not able to recruit them as consultants. Just as in the books of the most famous representative of this species Jim Collins a huge data base is claimed to be the foundation for the analysis. The authors make clear that their intention to justify human behaviour in critical situations requires a particularly solid ground in data. I agree with the reasoning but have to question the execution. The data base for the analysis is twofold: The first basis consists in 350 qualitive interviews with CEOs and CHROs. The second basis are the answers to 15.000 leaders and 50.000 employees in the two proprietary tools of the consulting company. Sounds impressive? But it is not: The quality of the 350 interviews cannot be judged by the reader. If better they were presumably semi-structured, but this is unclear because more detail on the method and the questionnaire is not published in the book. This is particularly difficult, since it is nowhere to be seen, how or if these answers are shielded against hindsight bias. A huge number is no replacement for quality. These interviews are no proof for the points made in the book, although the authors want to convince the reader that the opposite is true. Similarly questionable is the data from managers and employees. It is done by proprietary tools of the consulting company and can neither be judged by the reader nor be retested somewhere else. Again, it is impossible to judge whether the questions are shielded against biases. A problem? Indeed, a huge one. For one chapter the authors rely on a self-evaluation of managers concerning wisdom. It would be crucial to show that the managers are not overrating themselves. Not surprisingly the authors simply avoid the question. Again, that means the data may not be taken at face value. The reasoning behind this is bad marketing and should be seen as such. (For a detailed analysis on the data base Phil Rosenzweig`s The Halo Effect is highly recommendable.)
Another weak point is that the concepts of “caring” and “psychological safety” are far less clear than “openness”. Were as “openness” is exemplified down to outright quotes, caring in particular remains vague. Particularly the question of what happens, if “caring” and “the greater good” seem to be or are in conflict, remains again to be decided by the reader without a good suggestion from the authors.
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