A Change Of Heart?

In the coming years, compassion will be as important or even more important a requirement for executives as competitiveness, intelligence and aggressiveness.

Cornell University surveyed executives of big U.S. corporations and found that 58 percent believe that companies must consider social issues such as work-family, diversity, equal rights and the environment.

Thomas Dyckman, acting dean of Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, said, “Executives may be getting weary of the ‘chainsaw’ management mentality that’s been receiving so much attention lately.”