Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says empathy isn’t a soft skill — it’s actually ‘the hardest skill we learn’::Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked about the importance of empathy as a skill in the business world while accepting the Axel Springer Award in Berlin.
I feel like he’s telling on himself. I think for most people having a sense of empathy is the default, and learning how and when (if ever) to ignore that feeling is the hard part.
You guys just don’t understand how hard it is to make yourself think of other humans as important. This takes practice and effort! I spend 10 minutes a day thinking of how other people might feel and it’s exhausting. Anyway, the spreadsheet numbers are smaller than they used to be, so I’ll just do a round of layoffs.
Microsoft ceo + empathy doesn’t seem right
Almost any CEO + empathy doesn’t seem right.
At least 20% of people in executive positions are psychopaths. Literally psychopaths. Not sociopaths, full on psychos.
I can almost guarantee that the Venn diagram of psychopaths and executives at Fortune 500 companies is a circle.
That’s why he said it’s the hardest skill to learn…for him.
Idk empathy came a lot more naturally to me than fucking technical writing and calc. It’s just giving a shit, you were supposed to learn it by kindergarten
It’s hard if you’re a sociopath, which is a prereq to being CEO
Nah, successful sociopaths understand and perfectly emulate traits like empathy, often better than those who actually experience such traits.
I have a family member who almost certainly has antisocial personality disorder and your assessment is dead on.
A lot of people think they have empathy, but for many of them it’s very limited when it comes to other people who are not similar enough to the person themselves (or people close to them). E.g. people from a different background or socioeconomic class.
Empathy often ends wherever a person’s perceived “tribe” ends.
says the CEO of a company which laid off 10,000 employees in January
But he did it while feeling it with them
All of them at once, or one after the other?
It’s so comforting to know the skin-suits are trying to learn.
Most CEOs are sociopaths so that tracks.
This person has trained themselves to suppress their empathy or perhaps they have empathy for this stockholders. They laid off a ton of people this year and more will be coming after their huge acquisition.
This sounds like what an AI would come up with when it’s trying to be deep
I finally found out who is the Microsoft CEO lol
Steve Ballmer era was crazy.
Steve Ballmer was crazy.
Why lol
Alternate title: Microsoft CEO doesn’t know what “soft skill” means
LinkedIn did layoffs 48h ago
Axel Springer owns Business Insider, that’s why they are reporting it.
In Germany Axel Springer also owns Bild, which is very similar to Fox news. And it owns Welt, which is Bild in a business suit.
“It’s not soft! It’s difficult!”
Wuuuuuuut
And words are free to say, ya know. lol
That’s not what “soft skills” means, Satya.
