Being a better boss.

Empathy is a tricky concept. Our mind makes us believe that we know what the other person would be feeling.

That’s not true. It takes tremendous emotional labour to empathise with someone.

The most difficult person to empathise is ourself. And the lack of this empathy makes us the world’s worst boss.

Instead if we put in the effort to build this empathy, it will force us to select the tasks that are most important.

We can then ask some of the following questions:

• Can we be more specific about what we want to accomplish today.
• What’s in the priority list and what’s not?
• The goal that we have set for the day, is it doable?

This takes effort.

Not doing this is a lazy act and will make us a boss like the ones we hate.

I worked in a startup once for less than 3 months before I quit and the culture was one of the main reasons: “Here’s the task.” “Ok. What’s the deadline?” “Yesterday!”