From the course: Awakening Compassion at Work (Blinkist Summary)

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The workplace can be a place of compassion

The workplace can be a place of compassion

From the course: Awakening Compassion at Work (Blinkist Summary)

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The workplace can be a place of compassion

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- Blink number seven, the workplace can be a place of compassion, and companies can actively engender it. It's one thing for an individual to work on becoming more compassionate, but it's quite another to charge an entire company's culture. It may be tough, but it can be done. Once during a trip as organizational researchers, the authors visited Midwest Billing, a company based out of Omaha, Nebraska. Midwest Billing does the paperwork for the area's hospitals. Its employees are mostly women, and there are few opportunities for promotion. What's interesting is that the company is extremely efficient and profitable and the work atmosphere is immensely compassionate. One Monday morning when the authors were visiting an employee called Dorothy was faced with a massive amount of mail piled up on her desk. The material was all pretty similar, mostly updates about submitted insurance claims. But when the other women came to…

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