Compassionate Managers

I am a true believer that a manager's job is to understand her employees, know their strengths, weaknesses and motivations, develop their abilities to the fullest, each in their own way. However, reality is, if you have a sizable department, there are bound to be employees whose personalities are not quite in sync with yours. In which case you might be inclined to pay more attention to those employees that you find more agreeable and thus doing your company a disservice. Sometimes therefore it takes a bit of extra effort to span character differences so that you can fully study each employee. Oreo Delight's new post on "Compassion" suggests that may be what some of us are missing is a bit of "genuine compassion"? Quoting from this blog post, Dalai Lama defines "genuine compassion" as unbiased. I of course agree that more genuine compassion makes the world a better place, at least it will make us much better managers!