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Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy
In this essential and illuminating book, top business strategist Dev Patnaik tells the story of how organizations of all kinds prosper when they tap into a power each of us already has: empathy, the ability to reach outside of ourselves and connect with other people. When people inside a company develop a shared sense of what's going on in the world, they see new opportuni...more
Hardcover, 251 pages
Published
January 1st 2009
by FT Press
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Informative report on why empathetic companies do well
Executives often know little about the people who buy their companies’ products and services. This is not surprising. To study people, you must care about them. However, most companies eliminate empathy from their operations. In essence, they proceed as if they have calculating, survival-bent reptile brains. Profits drive everything. This is an odd disconnect because corporate livelihoods depend on people – not lizards – and peopl...more
Executives often know little about the people who buy their companies’ products and services. This is not surprising. To study people, you must care about them. However, most companies eliminate empathy from their operations. In essence, they proceed as if they have calculating, survival-bent reptile brains. Profits drive everything. This is an odd disconnect because corporate livelihoods depend on people – not lizards – and peopl...more
"Wired to Care" is one of the best business books I have read to date. Dev Patnaik explains why humans are hard-wired, as it were, to have empathy (including an explanation of the neurobiology of the limbic system) and then explains how it applies to business.
From stories about a young woman disguising herself as an older person (including prosthesis that impeded her movement) to better understand design issues for kitchen tools and public facilities as they impact the eld...more
From stories about a young woman disguising herself as an older person (including prosthesis that impeded her movement) to better understand design issues for kitchen tools and public facilities as they impact the eld...more
Excellent book for anyone that is leading a team creating services or products for people. The book outlines why empathy in any organization is an important enabler for long term success. What the book is lacking is recipes to achieve this empathy on an organizational level. Probably ok since it varies so much by industry. Here is my summary of the key ideas of the book:
You need to empathize with your customers to really understand their needs first hand rather than just analyzing them thr...more
You need to empathize with your customers to really understand their needs first hand rather than just analyzing them thr...more
Wired to Care has some fantastic and compelling examples about the power of empathy for design and business. The examples alone are worth the price of the book. And because it's full of stories it's a very easy read - even for a business book.
For all the great stories I wish there was more how-to in the book. I'm left with the feeling that, yes, empathy is clearly a huge thing - what are some more ways I can start putting it into action in my business. I needed more of the 'Putting e...more
For all the great stories I wish there was more how-to in the book. I'm left with the feeling that, yes, empathy is clearly a huge thing - what are some more ways I can start putting it into action in my business. I needed more of the 'Putting e...more
I have it on good authority that this is the book of the year.
Wired to care provides a refreshing lens through which to view businesses and the various markets that they serve. Whether you and your business produce a product or provide a service, this is an instructive read. It’s full of relevant examples (e.g., Target, Nike, Xbox, and many others) showing that when businesses and people care about others, they thrive. What’s more, the principles in this book are easy to comprehend, easy to implement, and relevant to business as well as simply doing life.
After hearing Mr. Patnaik lecture I bought his book. The idea that empathy with your clients, customers and employees improves your business would seem a no brainer, Yet, how often have you received poor customer service, been poorly motivated at your job or insulted by business partners. This is a book that seems to show that nice guys finish first, not last.
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Wired to Care looks at real customer empathy as a primary tool for companies who want to connect with the world in real, positive ways. The case studies give life to the theory and show how empathy is not only a weapon that gives competitive advantage, but also creates things people need for a healthy life in society.
Really engaging, accessible manual for how to be a successful business and a good person. As Patnaik (and my friend Pete!) explain, they are mutually compatible.
I'm interviewing the author, Dev Patnaik, on Friday for The Chautauquan Daily. I'll be reading Wired to Care between tonight and Thursday night. It looks awesome.
Only through part 1, but it's an interesting view to capitalism that I never was quite able to formulate internally.
This is a masterwork of...
Oh, I can't hide -- I'm the co-author of this book.
Oh, I can't hide -- I'm the co-author of this book.
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very excited to read!
This book just confirms the value of the approach i have always taken in health care sustainability - know the customer, compassion, authenticity... BUT a couple of sections didn't ring true for me like "today's generation wants disposable items." I don't think that's true.
A good idea, a good life, and a calling happen when we put ourselves in other people's shoes.
I got about halfway in this book, but the examples started to all meld together and seemed to have too much overlap. I also understand empathy as a designer, and the book seemed a little too basic (maybe I'm not the target audience though!)
Empathy gets well-deserved, long-overdue recognition in the professional realm.
an amazing must read book!!!!!
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Dev Patnaik is a founder and principal of Jump Associates, a consulting firm that helps companies innovate. Together with his teammates, he works with visionary business leaders to identify new markets, reinvent existing categories, and define new products and services. Dev is a trusted advisor to senior executives at some of America’s most admired companies, including General Electric, Nike, Proc...more
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