Market Conditions Call for Leading With Empathy: Working Capital

Analyzing trends in leadership, management and the art of career building.

Empaths of least resistance

This week, we brought you the story of KKR & Co. executive Pete Stavros’ wakeup call on the value of empathy and how it changed the private equity firm’s approach to developing leaders.

If your eyes just rolled a bit, we get it. The corporate raiders at KKR are going to empathy training. Funny! Besides, markets are convulsing and masculine energy is reasserting itself. Surely this is no time for business leaders, in private equity no less, to have to worry about displaying empathy in ...