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Managers Are Trapped in a Performance-Compassion Dilemma

Based on the reaction to our earlier article on the competing demands for both compassion and results leaders are facing, and given our ongoing work and research at companies around the world, we’ve learned that middle managers are often the ones feeling that tension most acutely. They feel torn between performance demands from above and calls for compassion from below.

Remember that no manager is able to effectively help their employees if they’re also burned out. So it falls on you to take the time and effort for self-care and to improve your own networks of support. And on executives to model those behaviors for the benefit of the whole organization. 

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