Self-care is more than just manis, pedis, and massages. It is vital to helping leaders embrace empathy while also making tough business decisions, holding people accountable, and setting high-performance standards. It matters because depleted leaders are ineffective leaders.

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Key Takeaways:

• Empathy requires fertile soil to take root. If you’re stuck in self-preservation and not feeding your own soil, you won’t be able to meet others with curiosity and empathy.
• Use pillar one, Self-Awareness, to start taking better care of yourself so you have a greater capacity to look outward. 
• Check out more about the book at TheEmpathyDilemma.com. 

"It can be tempting to shoulder additional burdens in the name of empathy, but, in the end, you are doing yourself and your team a disservice." —  Maria Ross

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