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A Fantastic Must Read!

Excellently written with great examples of how empathy can/should be applied to both work and personal life.

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Exceptional. Illuminating. Broadly actionable.

Will reveal fundamental business expansion opportunities with a holistic, open-minded approach towards broad growth into previously unimagined directions.

Apply the tools (and unrealized gems) in your backyard - your company’s genesis/history, and new perspectives/positioning of your existing products/services. Will unite and invigorate your culture, top, and bottom lines.

Largest scale case studies, GE to Nike, showing how the lens of empathy reveals core aspects of being human, (not “drivers”, but rather “inspirations”) and fuses them into profound, authentic, exponential company growth.

Extremely rare a revolutionary book like this comes out, with something so fundamental and attainable - inside us all.

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