Week6: My Introduction of the Essay

Hi all,

Today I am providing the introduction of my paper. I am wondering if I can finish writing 1 to 2 section(s) by Wednesday but anyways I will make an effort~ Have a good day :)

RW

Ken, Enochs

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Yu Ito

28, January 2015

Introduction

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care - Theodore Roosevelt

              Although many of us are taught and are encouraged to empathize with others in daily life, it seems that the notion of empathy is likely to be underestimated in business context. Especially when we think about leadership skill, the ability to empathize others is frequently undervalued or even ignored for a long time. However, empathy is actually one of the most important leadership skills and more and more researches have shown that empathy would be a key, essential ability for successful leaders (Reiche). Moreover considering recent world’s circumstances, where many people from various cultural backgrounds work together, it will be deduced that leaders need to notice the differences between cultures and what is more, it will be required for them to empathize those who have various cultures in order to accomplish a goal as well. Thus, successful leaders should cultivate empathy but this is not sufficient for them; leaders ought to be aware of cultural diversity in an organization and therefore, they should acquire cultural empathy for the success in today’s globalization era.

The purpose of this paper will be to examine how and why empathy, and especially cultural empathy is required for a successful leader in today’s global context. This paper will be divided two sections, that is, empathy and cultural empathy. First, it will begin with an explanation of the concept of empathy, and then it will analyze the reasons why leaders need to have an empathy for others. After that, it will provide an example of a leader who succeeded to empathize his workers and eventually led to a goal. Then it will turn to cultural empathy section. It will define the term of cultural empathy and provide the reasons why cultural empathy is related to the successful leadership. Finally it will introduce Carlos Ghosn as the model of a successful leader who cultivated cultural empathy fully.