{"id":72,"date":"2011-04-06T00:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2011\/04\/06\/chade-meng-tan-everyday-compassion-as-google-business-strategy\/"},"modified":"2013-06-29T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T18:44:17","slug":"chade-meng-tan-everyday-compassion-as-google-business-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2011\/04\/06\/chade-meng-tan-everyday-compassion-as-google-business-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Chade-Meng Tan: Everyday Compassion as Google Business Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Compassion leads to happiness, compassion is fun. What if compassion is also profitable? What if compassion is good for business?<\/p>\n

“Google is a company born of idealism. Expressions of corporate compassion start with a small group of Googlers, and they don’t usually ask for permission, then they get bigger and bigger until they become official.”<\/p>\n

“Compassion creates highly effective business leaders: “I feel for you, I understand you, I want to help you.”<\/p>\n

“Leaders highly ambitious for the greater good feel no need to inflate their own egos. Understanding, empathy, tones down the excesses of our own ego — creating leaders able to focus on a project rather than themselves.”<\/p>\n

“Compassion also inspires co-workers and promotes collaboration, initiative, and creativity. “It makes us a highly effective company.”<\/p>\n

“What is the secret formula for brewing compassion in a corporate setting? There are three ingredients:<\/p>\n

“First, create a culture of compassionate concern for the greater good — how is your company, and your job serving the greater good? This awareness of serving a greater good is very self-inspiring, and, it creates fertile grounds for compassion to grow in.”<\/p>\n

“The second ingredient is autonomy. “Google is a place where the inmates run the asylum.” If you already have a culture of compassion and idealism, and, you let your people run free? They will do the right thing.”<\/p>\n

“The third ingredient is to focus on inner development and personal growth: self-awareness, self-mastery, empathy, and compassion. Leadership begins with character: attention training to create a calm, clear quality of mind as a foundation for emotional intelligence; developing self-knowledge and self-mastery as a high-resolution third-person perspective on one’s own thoughts; create new mental habits\u2026your first impulse upon meeting someone: “I want you to be happy\u2026I want you to be happy,” creating trust and compassion within the workplace.”<\/p>\n

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion; if you want to be happy, practice compassion.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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