PART TWO
AWAKENING COMPASSION IN OUR WORK LIVES
It’s easy to overlook, but suffering is everywhere in organizations—from the tiniest workplace to the largest. Alongside it comes the possibility of awakening compassion at work. Just today, on Monica’s ride to the airport on a business trip, a conversation with the taxi driver that had begun as a casual discussion evoked an unusual revelation about suffering. It turned out that the driver’s estranged wife lived in the city that Monica was going to visit, and the conversation prompted him to reflect on the depth of loneliness in his life and how much he missed being with his children. Even in a workplace of one, like this taxi, suffering surfaces in unexpected ways when a connection with a client ...
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