The story of an entrepreneur with severe hemophilia shows how consciously overcoming pain, suffering, and difficulty builds empathetic leadership and discipline based on growth and innovation.
When I posted my product on producthunt (and that was about 5 years ago) I got dozens of props with a first place guarantee.
Literally an hour after posting, I was bombarded with messages. Now it's probably even worse.
Over the course of seven months, I conducted more than 50 interviews with top-level managers, mainly CEO (chief executive officer), CTO (chief technology officer), CFO (chief financial officer), COO (chief operating officer) and CIO (chief innovation/IT officer), from countries such as Poland, the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and Sweden. These meetings gave me the opportunity to hear a variety of perspectives on the onset of the crisis in the markets, especially in the IT and high-tech industry, and to learn about the current situation in companies. The following transcripts are based on these reflections and the data collected.
In relationships with other people, especially those closest to us, we often encounter situations where their words seem hurtful. Honesty that is perceived as unfair and harsh can be difficult to accept and is therefore automatically rejected. However, only people who know the other person well and care about his or her wellbeing are able to make comments that are difficult to hear but necessary for his or her development. Provided, of course, that they do so with empathy, respect, reverence and sincerity.
According to a Gallup survey, only 26% of employees believe that the feedback they receive helps them to do a better job. This is because appraisals and development discussions often lack the ‘tough’ content that would be helpful for their development.
Research from the Harvard Business Review supports this. They report that while 72% of employees consider leaders providing critical feedback to be important for their development, only 5% of them believe that their managers actually share such feedback with them.