Softening the Edge: Empathy: How humanity’s oldest leadership trait is changing our world, reviewed

Review of Softening the edge, by Mimi Jacklin, see more about the book here

Written by a female millennial leader, the book takes inspiration from some of the world’s most powerful opinion leaders – President Barack Obama, Jacinda Ardern, Oprah Winfrey – and creates a compelling case for an empathy intervention, amid the tumultuous true story of business turned around by doing exactly this.

By 2021, estimates suggest 46% of the workforce will be comprised of and be led by millennials. By failing to proactively nurture empathy in our future leaders, we are failing to protect our future. Today, most of us do not enjoy our work, burn out is at all-time high, depression is impacting over 33,000,000 people and the younger generation is leaving the corporate workplace in droves. We need an intervention. Softening The Edge looks to be exactly that.

Softening the edge, Empathy, reviewed

We’re definitely in a world where many world leaders have a shocking lack of empathy. Truly cruel, self serving unempathetic people, acting in no one’s interest but their own. If Nicklin’s book can help change this, then it is only a good thing. Though naturally the massive challenge is that the Borris’s, Trumps, Putins and others are of course the last people to have any interest or concern in something like empathy.

We hope this book does well as the world certainly needs more empathy. It is readable, well written and articulates it’s points well, somehow it just needs to be rammed down the throats of all of those who are currently affecting our lives in the most unempathetic of ways.

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Mimi Nicklin is an author and the host of the ‘Empathy for Breakfast’ breakfast show as well as the ‘Secrets of The Gap’  podcast. She is an experienced marketer and communications specialist, a well-known empathetic leader, and the Creative Officer and Regional Managing Director for a global advertising agency.

For over fifteen years she has been working across the globe with her clients to drive stand out creative interventions that lead to business and culture change. Driven by the pursuit of bringing conscientiousness to the role and impact of Regenerative Leadership, with a desire to make the world of work a more empathetic, valuable and sustainably healthy place to be, ‘Softening The Edge’ is Mimi’s debut book. She is also a keynote speaker and columnist.

Having lived and worked in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Dubai, Mimi’s approach changes organisations from the inside out, focusing on cultural, behavioural and mindset change. She is a natural coach, writer and creative mind, and has held roles as diverse as Strategic Director, Vice President and Creative Officer in some of the world’s leading advertising agencies. Her passion for balancing humanism with capitalism, drives her commitment to leading the practice of Regenerative and empathetic leadership, as well as her ‘principles of people’, into organisations and communities worldwide.

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